John 8:12-20

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The light of the world

¹² Jesus spoke to them again.

“I am the light of the world,” he said. “People who follow me won’t go around in the dark; they’ll have the light of life!”

¹³ “You’re giving evidence in your own case!” said the Pharisees. “Your evidence is false!”

¹⁴ “Even if I do give evidence about myself,” replied Jesus to them, “my evidence is true, because I know where I came from and where I’m going to. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going to. ¹⁵ You are judging in merely human terms; I don’t judge anyone. ¹⁶ But even if I do judge, my judgment is true, because I’m not a lone voice; I have on my side the father who sent me. ¹⁷ It is written in your law that the evidence of two people is true. ¹⁸ I’m giving evidence about myself, and the father who sent me is giving evidence about me.”

¹⁹ “Where is your father?” they said to him.

“You don’t know me,” replied Jesus, “and you don’t know my father! If you had known me, you would have known my father as well.”

²⁰ He said all this in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Nobody arrested him, though, because his time hadn’t yet come.