John 12:36

While ye have Here again the better reading is as ye have; and -light" should be -the Light." Note the emphatic repetition so common in S. John.

that ye may be Rather, that ye may become. Faith is only the beginning; it does not at once make us children.

children of light No article: but in all the four preceding cases -light" has the article and means Christ, the Light, as in John 1:5; John 1:7-9. The expression -child of" or -son of" is frequent in Hebrew poetry to indicate very close connexion as between product and producer (see on John 17:12). Thus, -son of peace," Luke 10:6; -children of this world," John 16:8; -sons of thunder," Mark 3:17. Such expressions are very frequent in the most Hebraistic of the Gospels: comp. Matthew 5:9; Matthew 8:12; Matthew 9:15; Matthew 13:38; Matthew 23:15.

and departed Probably to Bethany, to spend the last few days before His hour came in retirement. Comp. Matthew 21:17; Mark 11:11; Luke 21:37.

did hide himself Rather, was hidden.