Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³⁴ The people answered him, `Our law book tells us that Christ will stay here for ever. Why do you say, "The Son of Man will be raised up from the earth"? Tell us who this Son of Man is.'

³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, `You have light for a short time longer. Walk while you have the light so that you will not need to walk in the dark. The person who walks in the dark cannot see where he is going.

³⁶ Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may be a people who have the light in you.' When Jesus had said this, he left them. They did not know where he was.

³⁷ Even though they had seen Jesus doing many big works, they did not believe in him.

³⁸ What the prophet Isaiah said came true. He said, `Lord, who has believed what we told them? Who has believed even though they have seen the power of God's hand?'

⁴⁰ So they could not believe. Isaiah said also, `God has made them blind. Their hearts have no feeling. They cannot see. They do not understand with their heart. They will not turn to God. If they did turn, he would heal them.'

⁴¹ Isaiah said this about the Christ when he saw how great he was.

⁴² Some of the chief rulers believed in Jesus, but they did not tell anyone that they believed in him. They were afraid the Pharisees would put them out of the meeting place.

⁴³ They wanted the praise of men more than the praise of God.

⁴⁴ Jesus called out, `Anyone who believes in me does not believe just in me, but in the one who sent me.

⁴⁵ Anyone who sees me sees the one who sent me.

⁴⁶ I am a light and have come into the world. Anyone who believes in me will not be in the dark.

⁴⁷ If anyone hears what I say and does not believe it, I do not judge him. I did not come to judge the world. I came to save the world.

⁴⁸ The one who will not believe in me and will not listen to what I say will be judged anyway. The same things that I have said will judge him on the last day.

⁴⁹ `I have not said this from my own mind, but my Father who sent me told me what to say. He told me what to tell you.

⁵⁰ I know that what he told me to say has power to give life for ever. So I say everything my Father has told me to say.'