While ye have light, believe in the light
Receive the Messiah, and credit the Gospel revelation; this is an
explanation of the exhortation in the preceding verse:
that ye may be the children of the light;
that is, that they might appear to be such who are enlightened
persons; and such are truly so, who are made light in the Lord,
or who are enlightened by the Spirit of God to see their own
sinfulness, impotency, and unrighteousness, and their need of
Christ, and his righteousness and strength, and of salvation by
him; and who are made meet, by the grace of God, to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light; and which is made
manifest by believing in Christ, and walking on in him, as they
have received him, and by walking honestly, as in the daytime,
and circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, for such walk as
children of the light.
These things spake Jesus, and departed;
from those Jews, as being unworthy of any further conversation
with him; and from Jerusalem, very likely to Bethany, whither he
frequently retired, especially at night, during the few days
before the passover:
and did hide himself from them:
for his safety, for he knew that they were irritated by what he
said, and would seek to lay hold upon him, and deliver him to the
sanhedrim; and whereas his hour was not yet fully come, there
were a few more sands in the glass to run, he provided for his
security, by absconding from them; and this was an emblem of his
wholly removing from them, and leaving them, and their house,
desolate; and it is very likely that from this time forward they
saw him no more as ministering the word unto them; and also of
his taking his Gospel from them in a little time, and of his
hiding the things of it from them, which respected himself, and
salvation by him.