John 8:12-18

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."

Cross References

• 1. John 7:37, 38
• 2. [Psalms 36:9; Isaiah 42:6; Isaiah 49:6; Malachi 4:2]; See John 1:4, 9
• 3. John 12:26; John 21:19
• 4. See John 12:35
• 5. John 5:31
• 6. [Revelation 3:14]
• 7. John 13:3; John 16:28
• 8. ver. 21; John 7:33
• 9. [John 7:28; John 9:29]
• 10. John 7:24; 1 Samuel 16:7; [Job 10:4]
• 11. John 12:47; [ver. 11]
• 12. John 5:30
• 13. ver. 29; John 16:32
• 14. See Numbers 35:30
• 15. John 5:37

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts he