36While 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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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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. …
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.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-36)Honour is here done to Christ by his Father in a voice from heaven, occasioned by the following part of his discourse, and which gave occasion to a further conference with the people. In these verses we have, I. Christ’s address to his Father, upon occasion of the trouble which seized his spirit at this time: Now is my soul troubled , John 12:27. A strange word to come from Christ’s mouth, and at…
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