John 12:36 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁶ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ 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

³⁶ 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)

³⁶ 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

³⁶ 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

³⁶ 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

³⁶ 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 thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

Matthew 21:17

And he left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.

Matthew 5:14

Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

John 1:7

The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.

John 11:54

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.

John 12:37

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him:

John 12:46

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.

John 3:21

But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.

John 8:12

Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 8:59

They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

1 Thessalonians 5:5

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.