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.
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John 12:36
John 12:36
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occasion to a further conference with the people. In these verses we
have,…John 12:36John 12:36 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgebelieve: John 1:7, John 3:21; Isaiah 60:1; Acts 13:47-48
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and departed: John 8:59, John 10:39-40, John 11:54; Matthew 21:17John 12:36John 12:36 · Little Bible — for children and parentsJesus' final public invitation before the cross: become a child of light. Trust Him now. Then He withdrew — the door of public ministry was closing. Urgency matters.
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