John 8:12-30

I Am the Light of the World

12 ¹Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ²“I am the light of the world. Whoever ³follows me will not ⁴walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. ”

13 So the Pharisees said to him, ⁵“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true. ”

14 Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ⁶my testimony is true, for I know ⁷where I came from and ⁸where I am going, but ⁹you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

15 ¹⁰You judge according to the flesh; ¹¹I judge no one.

16 Yet even if I do judge, ¹²my judgment is true, for ¹³it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[a] who sent me.

17 ¹⁴In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

18 I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ¹⁵the Father who sent me bears witness about me. ”

19 They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father? ” Jesus answered, ¹⁶“You know neither me nor my Father. ¹⁷If you knew me, you would know my Father also. ”

20 These words he spoke in ¹⁸the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ¹⁹no one arrested him, because ²⁰his hour had not yet come.

21 So he said to them again, ²¹“I am going away, and ²²you will seek me, and ²³you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come. ”

22 So the Jews said, ²⁴“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’? ”

23 He said to them, ²⁵“You are from below; I am from above. ²⁶You are of this world; ²⁷I am not of this world.

24 I told you that you ²⁸would die in your sins, for ²⁹unless you believe that ³⁰I am he you will die in your sins. ”

25 So they said to him, ³¹“Who are you? ” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.

26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ³²he who sent me is true, and I declare ³³to the world ³⁴what I have heard from him. ”

27 They did not understand that ³⁵he had been speaking to them about the Father.

28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have ³⁶lifted up the Son of Man, ³⁷then you will know that ³⁸I am he, and that ³⁹I do nothing on my own authority, but ⁴⁰speak just as the Father taught me.

29 And ⁴¹he who sent me is with me. ⁴²He has not left me alone, for ⁴³I always do the things that are pleasing to him. ”

30 As he was saying these things, ⁴⁴many believed in him.