John 12:34-46

³⁴“We,” replied the people, “have learnt from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; how is it, then, that you say that the Son of Man must be ‘lifted up’ Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

³⁵“Only a little while longer,” answered Jesus, “will you have the light amongst you. Travel on while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.

³⁶While you still have the light, believe in the light, so that you may be children of light.” After he had said this, Jesus went away, and hid himself from them.

³⁷But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,

³⁸in fulfilment of the words of the prophet Isaiah, where he says — ‘Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?’

³⁹The reason why they were unable to believe is given by Isaiah elsewhere, in these words —

⁴⁰‘He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn — And I should heal them.’

⁴¹Isaiah said this, because he saw Christ's glory; and it was of him that he spoke.

⁴²Yet for all this, even amongst the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, because of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, because they were afraid that they should be expelled from their synagogues;

⁴³for they valued honour from people more than honour from God.

⁴⁴But Jesus had proclaimed, “He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

⁴⁵and he who sees me sees him who sent me.

⁴⁶I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness.