John 8:12–30

I Am the Light of the World

^12lAgain Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^m“I am the light of the world. Whoever ⁿfollows me will not ^owalk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³So the Pharisees said to him, ^p“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^qmy testimony is true, for I know ^rwhere I came from and ^swhere I am going, but ^tyou do not know where I come from or where I am going. ^15uYou judge according to the flesh; ^vI judge no one. ¹⁶Yet even if I do judge, ^wmy judgment is true, for ^xit is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father² who sent me. ^17yIn your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^zthe Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹They 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.” ²⁰These words he spoke in ^cthe treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^dno one arrested him, because ^ehis hour had not yet come.

²¹So he said to them again, ^f“I am going away, and ^gyou will seek me, and ^hyou will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²²So the Jews said, ⁱ“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³He said to them, ^j“You are from below; I am from above. ^kYou are of this world; ^lI am not of this world. ²⁴I told you that you ^mwould die in your sins, for ⁿunless you believe that ^oI am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵So they said to him, ^p“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^qhe who sent me is true, and I declare ^rto the world ^swhat I have heard from him.” ²⁷They did not understand that ^the had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^ulifted up the Son of Man, ^vthen you will know that ^wI am he, and that ^xI do nothing on my own authority, but ^yspeak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹And ^zhe who sent me is with me. ^zHe has not left me alone, for ^aI always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰As he was saying these things, ^bmany believed in him.