"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

It had the glory of God. Its light was like some precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal;

And the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not overwhelmed it

but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

Like light am I come into the world, so that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness.

Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

"the lame are walking, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised up, and the gospel is being preached to the poor.

So he answered them. "Go your way, tell John what you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become Sons of Light."

among them being Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;

"But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground; yet he promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity??e at that time being childless.

Instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he had not given God the glory, and being eaten up by worms, he died.

"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.