³⁷ ‘You are a king then? ’ Pilate asked.

‘You say that I’m a king,’ Jesus replied. ‘I was born for this, and I have come into the world^(A) for this: to testify^(B) to the truth.^(C) Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.’

⁸ Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away^(A) and the true light^(B) is already shining.^(C)