John 12:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.” After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

While you have the Light, believe in the Light [have faith in it, hold to it, rely on it], that you may become sons of the Light and be filled with Light. Jesus said these things, and then He went away and hid Himself from them [was lost to their view].

American Standard Version (1901)

While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them.

Common English Bible

As long as you have the light, believe in the light so that you might become people whose lives are determined by the light.” After Jesus said these things, he went away and hid from them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may be sons of the Light." Jesus spoke these things, and then he went away and hid himself from them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things Jesus spoke; and he went away, and hid himself from them.

John 12:36 Cross References

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

Matthew 21:17

He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

Matthew 5:14

“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.

John 11:54

Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness, and he remained there with the disciples.

John 12:37

Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him.

John 12:46

I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.

John 3:21

But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

John 8:59

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,

1 Thessalonians 5:5

for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.