Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Though the Pharisees turned a deaf ear and opposed Him, Christ spoke again to them: I am the light of the world. One sun enlightens the whole world, and so does one Christ; there needs no more. He is the Sun of righteousness, not the light of the Jewish church only, but of all mankind.
AI summary
Commenting on John 8:12-20
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (4) The world, which is blind in itself, cannot come to have any light but in Christ alone.
Amid the blazing golden lamps of the treasury at tabernacles, when all Jerusalem danced in joy, Christ proclaims in the most absolute sense: I am the Light of the World. The Baptist was a burning lamp sent to witness to that Light; but He alone is the true Light that lightens every man coming into the world, the Messiah promised of old.
AI summary
Commenting on John 8:12-59