36. Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.’ When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.
37. Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.
38. This was to fulfil the word of Isaiah the prophet:‘Lord, who has believed our messageand to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’
39. For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
40. ‘He has blinded their eyesand hardened their hearts,so they can neither see with their eyes,nor understand with their hearts,nor turn – and I would heal them.’
41. Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.
42. Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;