John 8:12-30
I Am the Light of the World
12 aAgain Jesus spoke to them, saying, b“I am the light of the world. Whoever cfollows me will not dwalk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13 So the Pharisees said to him, a“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” 14 Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, amy testimony is true, for I know bwhere I came from and cwhere I am going, but dyou do not know where I come from or where I am going. 15 aYou judge according to the flesh; bI judge no one. 16 Yet even if I do judge, amy judgment is true, for bit is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. 17 aIn your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. 18 I am the one who bears witness about myself, and athe Father who sent me bears witness about me.” 19 They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, a“You know neither me nor my Father. bIf you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20 These words he spoke in athe treasury, as he taught in the temple; but bno one arrested him, because chis hour had not yet come.
21 So he said to them again, a“I am going away, and byou will seek me, and cyou will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22 So the Jews said, a“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23 He said to them, a“You are from below; I am from above. bYou are of this world; cI am not of this world. 24 I told you that you awould die in your sins, for bunless you believe that cI am he you will die in your sins.” 25 So they said to him, a“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ahe who sent me is true, and I declare bto the world cwhat I have heard from him.” 27 They did not understand that ahe had been speaking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have alifted up the Son of Man, bthen you will know that cI am he, and that dI do nothing on my own authority, but espeak just as the Father taught me. 29 And ahe who sent me is with me. aHe has not left me alone, for bI always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30 As he was saying these things, amany believed in him.
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