Matthew Poole and continuators on John 12:36

36 While ye have light, believe in the light , that ye may be the children of light . These things spake Jesus, and departed , and did hide himself from them .

He either expounds what he meant before, by his calling to them to walk in the light, viz. Believing in him who is the true and great light of the World. Or else he declares Faith in him to be their duty, as well as Obedience to him, which is a point our Saviour had often before pressed: While I am amongst you, and when I shall be gone from you, and the light of the Gospel yet stayeth behind amongst you; imbrace me, and receive me as your Saviour, and yield all Obedience to the prescriptions of my Gospel,

that you may be children of the light; this the Apostle expounds, and inlargeth upon Eph. 5.8, 9, 10, 11.

After Christ had spoken these things in Ierusalem, he departed to Bethany,

where he obscured himself from his Enemies.

Marginal references: Luk. 16.8. 1 Thes. 5.5. 1 Joh. 2.9, 10.; Chap. 8.59. and 11.54.