John 9:4
Good News Translation
As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work.

New Revised Standard Version
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

Contemporary English Version
As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work.

New American Bible
We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

must.

John 4:34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

John 5:19,36 Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner. . . .

John 10:32,37 Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me? . . .

John 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Luke 13:32-34 And he said to them: Go and tell that fox: Behold, I cast out devils and do cures, to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am consummated. . . .

Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

while.

John 11:9,10 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world: . . .

John 12:35 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Isaiah 38:18,19 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth. . . .

Ephesians 5:16 But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Colossians 4:5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

Context
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind
3Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.…
Cross References
John 7:33
Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me.

John 11:9
Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:

John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth.

Galatians 6:10
Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

John 9:3
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