John 9:4
World English Bible (WEB)
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
In context
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.
4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
John 9:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
- KJV King James Version
- I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
- ASV American Standard Version
- We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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: —
- DBY Darby Translation
- I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. [The] night is coming, when no one can work.
- WBS Webster Bible
- I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.