While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
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Gill's Exposition
But though he had done so many miracles before them,.... Openly, and in the presence of them; meaning those miracles which were done at Jerusalem, as those which brought Nicodemus to him, and to an…
Barnes' Notes
While ye have light - This implied two things: 1.That he was the light, or was the Messiah. 2.That he was soon to be taken away by death. In this manner he answered their question - not directly, but…
Adam Clarke
Children of light - Let the light, the truth of Christ, so dwell in and work by you that ye may be all light in the Lord: that as truly as a child is the produce of his own parent, and partakes of his…
Honour is here done to Christ by his Father in a voice from heaven, occasioned by the following part of his discourse, and which gave occasion to a further conference with the people. In these verses…
Cambridge Bible
While ye have Here again the better reading is as ye have; and -light" should be -the Light." Note the emphatic repetition so common in S. John.
that ye may be Rather, that ye may become. Faith is…
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