Dispute Over Jesus’ Testimony

¹² When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am^(A) the light of the world.^(B) Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”^(C)

⁴ As long as it is day,^(A) we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”^(B)

³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.^{(A) 4} In him was life,^(B) and that life was the light^(C) of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness,^(D) and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.^(E)

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John.^{(F) 7} He came as a witness to testify^(G) concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.^{(H) 8} He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

⁹ The true light^(I) that gives light to everyone^(J) was coming into the world.

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^{(A) 45} The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^{(B) 46} I have come into the world as a light,^(C) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.