He says and perhaps thinks he is in the light, but he has never seen the light; it has never shone on him. ἀδελφόν, on the lips of Jesus a fellow-man (cf. Matthew 5:45; Luke 15:30; Luke 15:32), in the apostolic writings a fellow-Christian (cf. 1 John 2:1-2; 1 John 2:16) one of the apostolic narrowings of the Lord's teaching. Cf. “neighbour” with the Rabbis, a fellow-Jew; with Jesus, a fellow-man (cf. Luke 10:25-37). There is no contradiction between this passage and Luke 14:26. The best commentary on the latter is John 12:25.

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