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.

Cross References

• 1. 8:12 ch. 7:37, 38
• 2. 8:12 [Ps. 36:9; Isa. 42:6; 49:6; Mal. 4:2]; See ch. 1:4, 9
• 3. 8:12 ch. 12:26; 21:19
• 4. 8:12 See ch. 12:35
• 5. 8:13 ch. 5:31
• 6. 8:14 [Rev. 3:14]
• 7. 8:14 ch. 13:3; 16:28
• 8. 8:14 ver. 21; ch. 7:33
• 9. 8:14 [ch. 7:28; 9:29]
• 10. 8:15 ch. 7:24; 1 Sam. 16:7; [Job 10:4]
• 11. 8:15 ch. 12:47; [ver. 11]
• 12. 8:16 ch. 5:30
• 13. 8:16 ver. 29; ch. 16:32
• 14. 8:17 See Num. 35:30
• 15. 8:18 ch. 5:37
• 16. 8:19 ver. 55; ch. 16:3
• 17. 8:19 ch. 14:7
• 18. 8:20 See Matt. 27:6
• 19. 8:20 ch. 7:30
• 20. 8:20 ch. 7:8
• 21. 8:21 ch. 14:28; [ch. 14:2, 3; 16:7]
• 22. 8:21 See ch. 7:34
• 23. 8:21 ver. 24; Ezek. 3:18; 33:8
• 24. 8:22 [ch. 7:35]
• 25. 8:23 [ver. 44; ch. 3:31]
• 26. 8:23 1 John 4:5
• 27. 8:23 ch. 17:14, 16
• 28. 8:24 ver. 21
• 29. 8:24 ch. 16:9
• 30. 8:24 Mark 13:6; Luke 21:8
• 31. 8:25 [ch. 1:19]
• 32. 8:26 ch. 3:33; 7:28; Rom. 3:4
• 33. 8:26 [ch. 18:20]
• 34. 8:26 ver. 40; ch. 15:15; [ch. 3:32; Rev. 1:1]
• 35. 8:27 ver. 18, 26
• 36. 8:28 ch. 3:14; 12:32, 34
• 37. 8:28 [ch. 16:8-11]
• 38. 8:28 See ver. 24
• 39. 8:28 See ch. 5:30
• 40. 8:28 See ch. 7:16
• 41. 8:29 ver. 16; ch. 16:32; Acts 10:38; See ch. 10:38
• 42. 8:29 ver. 16; ch. 16:32; Acts 10:38; See ch. 10:38
• 43. 8:29 ch. 4:34; 5:30; 6:38; [1 John 3:22]
• 44. 8:30 See ch. 7:31

Footnotes

• [a] 8:16 Some manuscripts 'he'