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I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Jesus again claims to be Light of the World in John 9:5, during the miracle of healing the blind at birth, saying: [2] When I am in the world, I am the Light of the World.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. The New International Version translates the passage as: Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
John 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It maintains the previous chapter's theme "Jesus is light", [1] recording the healing of an unnamed man who had been blind from birth, a miracle performed by Jesus, and their subsequent dealings with the Pharisees. [2]
For suppose a blind man standing in the sun, the sun is present to him, but he is absent from the sun. In like manner every fool is blind, and wisdom is present to him; but, though present, absent from his sight, forasmuch as sight is gone: the truth being, not that she is absent from him, but that he is absent from her." [8]
The story is sometimes thought of as a loose adaptation of one in the Gospel of Mark, of the healing of a blind man called Bartimaeus, but in fact is a different story, The healing of Bartimaeus takes place near Jericho, involves two men who call out from the roadside as Jesus passes by, and comes later in Matthew 20:29-34. In Matthew 9, the ...
Jesus is understood to be the light of God, who is sent by the Father to illumine the world out of sin and darkness. [ 1 ] This phrase is the motto of Columbia University School of General Studies under the more complete lux in tenebris lucet , and was also the national motto for the former British colonial protectorate of Nyasaland (now Malawi ).
The term comes from the theological concept of adoption, which says that believers are made part of God's family, and become his children. The use of "brother" as a designation for Christians has become restricted to members of religious communities (the Catholic sense ), or as an honorific for pastors (often used in Baptist churches).
The Blind Leading the Blind has been considered one of the great masterpieces of painting. [38] Bruegel's is the earliest surviving painting whose subject is the parable of the blind leading the blind, though there are earlier engravings from the Low Countries known that Bruegel was likely aware of, [ 31 ] including one attributed to Bosch, [ 3 ...