John 12:36

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

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  • John 8:59 : 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
  • 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an 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 darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
  • John 1:7 : 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
  • John 3:21 : 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
  • Isa 60:1 : 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
  • Matt 21:17 : 17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
  • John 10:39-40 : 39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where n at first baptized; and there he abode.
  • John 11:54 : 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
  • Acts 13:47-48 : 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

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