Cross references

John 12:36

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.”

After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

John 12:36 BSB

John 12:36 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ephesians 5:8 (6 votes) and John 8:59 (5 votes). 24 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from 2 Chronicles 14 to 3 John 1.

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Which verses does John 12:36 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

  2. John 8:595 votes

    At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.

  3. For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

  4. Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

  5. Luke 16:84 votes

    The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

  6. John 1:74 votes

    He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.

  7. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’” When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

  8. Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.

  9. John 3:212 votes

    But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”

  10. At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp. Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.

  11. John 11:542 votes

Which verses point to John 12:36?

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