John 12:36

American Standard Version (1901)

While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them.

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  • John 8:59 : 59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
  • 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
  • John 1:7 : 7 The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.
  • John 3:21 : 21 But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
  • Isa 60:1 : 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.
  • Matt 21:17 : 17 And he left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
  • John 10:39-40 : 39 They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand. 40 And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there he abode.
  • John 11:54 : 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.
  • Acts 13:47-48 : 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth. 48 And as the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

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    44 And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

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    12 Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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