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John 9:5

John 9:5

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

As long as I am in the world,.... Which had been now two or three and thirty years; but was not to be much longer.I am the light of the world; See Gill on "".

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