Light can be welcomed or resisted
The passage concerns our response to Christ and the exposure of our deeds—not an arbitrary preference for one color or feeling.
Scripture
- John 3:16-21 — The context of the light and darkness illustration.
Primary sources
John 3:20 describes the response to the light:
John connects refusal of the light with fear that evil deeds will be exposed.
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
Passage context and translation
John 3:16–21 relates light to God's gift of the Son, judgment, and exposed deeds. It supplies no diagnosis based on a visual color.
Before the excerpt
Context summary: The text speaks of people loving darkness because their deeds are evil.
After the excerpt
Context summary: The person who does truth comes to the light so that works done in God may be revealed.