12:34
The crowd questioned Jesus. It is noteworthy that John uses the word “crowd” here rather than “Jews”, so he is definitely referring to the general mass of the people. They knew from the Old Testament that the Messiah would be forever, not a temporary figure. It seems that they assumed Jesus was talking about His death, they also knew that Jesus was referring to Himself as the Messiah. They also expected the Messiah to be triumphant. The cross did not figure in anyone’s expectations of the Messiah.
12:35,36
Jesus,as so often, draws attention to Himself. They should walk in the light while they have it, they should learn from Jesus. Jesus implies that He will not be with them for much longer, if they do not learn now then darkness will overtake them. If someone walks in the darkness then they do not know where they are going. This is something which we see all too clearly in our society. We need to walk in the light then we can become sons of light. How much better to be sons of light than sons of darkness! We see in our society that it is led by sons of darkness, there are even parts of the church that are led by sons of darkness.
Jesus then left and hid Himself again. Jesus chose when to be seen in public.
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