33. (Now he said this to indicate by what sort of death he was going to die.)
34. Then the crowd replied to him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever! And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
35. So Jesus said to them, “Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36. While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said these things, and then he went away and was hidden from them.
37. But as many signs as he had performed before them, they did not believe in him,
38. in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39. For this reason they were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said,
40. “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.”
41. Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, and he spoke about him.
42. Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.
43. For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.
44. But Jesus cried out and said, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,
45. and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.