who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe.

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.

Arise, Jerusalem, and shine like the sun; The glory of the LORD is shining on you!

For this is the commandment that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved.' "

When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and praised the Lord's message; and those who had been chosen for eternal life became believers.

As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light."

You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light,

All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.

Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.

Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had been baptizing, and he stayed there.

So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the desert, to a town named Ephraim, where he stayed with the disciples.

Jesus left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.