‏ John 11:9

 In the day ( της ημερας ). Genitive of time, within the day, the twelve-hour day in contrast with night. The words of Jesus here illustrate what he had said in 9:4. It is not blind fatalism that Jesus proclaims, but the opposite of cowardice. He has full confidence in the Father s purpose about his "hour" which has not yet come. Jesus has courage to face his enemies again to do the Father's will about Lazarus.

 If a man walk in the day ( εαν τις περιπατη εν τη ημερα ). Condition of the third class, a conceived case and it applies to Jesus who walks in the full glare of noonday. See 8:12 for the contrast between walking in the light and in the dark.

 He stumbleth not ( ου προσκοπτε ). He does not cut (or bump) against this or that obstacle, for he can see.  Κοπτω is to cut and pros, against.

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