John 12:36

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John 12:34–38 · Berean Standard Bible

34 The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

35 Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

36 While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

37 Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.

38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

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John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.

John 3:21

But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

Acts 13:47

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Acts 13:48

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

1 John 2:9

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

John 8:59

At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

John 10:39

At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.

John 10:40

Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.

John 11:54

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Matthew 21:17

Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.