John 12:35

Jesus, the light, will only be present a little longer, so He urges people to walk in the light before darkness overtakes them. It matters because the time to respond to Him is now, not indefinite.

Cross-references · 23

• John 12:46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
• John 16:16A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
• 1 Jn 1:6–7If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
• Eph 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• John 8:12Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
• John 11:10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
• John 9:4–5I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
• John 12:36While 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.
• Jer 13:16–17Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Isa 2:5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
• John 7:33Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
• John 12:39–40Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
• John 1:5–9And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
• 1 Th 5:5–8Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
• 1 Jn 2:8–11Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
• Isa 42:6–7I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
• Ps 69:22–28Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
• Eph 5:14–15Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Rom 13:12–14The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• Rom 11:7–10What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
• 2 Cor 3:14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
• Prov 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
• Heb 3:7–8Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

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