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John 9:4
it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
John 9:4 · Young's Literal Translation
John 9:4 in other translations
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
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In context
1 And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,
2 and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'
3 Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;
4 it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
5 when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
6 These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
7 `Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;
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