a phrase that makes for awkward Greek and is probably indebted to Hebraic idiom, whether because of LXX influence or the effect of spoken Semitic language (whether Aramaic or Hebrew) on John’s Greek. The LXX speaks of “doing the truth” (Gen. 47:29; Josh. 2:14; 2 Sam. 2:6; 15:20; Tob. 4:6; 13:6). In John 3:21 Jesus speaks of “the one who does the truth” (NIV has “lives by the truth”); Jesus says that person “comes into the light.” He thereby makes the same connection between “light” and “doing the