John 12

¹So Jesus, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

²So they made a supper for him there, and Martha was serving; and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him.

³So Mary, taking a pound of very expensive pure nard perfumed oil, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.

⁴But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was about to betray him, said,

⁵"Why was this perfumed oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"

⁶He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; and having the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

⁷So Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.

⁸For the poor you always have with you, but me you do not always have.

⁹So a large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came not because of Jesus only, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

¹⁰But the chief priests also plotted to kill Lazarus,

¹¹because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

¹²On the next day the large crowd that had come to the feast, having heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹³took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and began shouting: "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! And blessed is the King of Israel!"

¹⁴And Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat upon it, just as it is written:

¹⁵"Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, seated on a colt of a donkey."

¹⁶His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

¹⁷So the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was bearing witness.

¹⁸For this reason also the crowd met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

¹⁹So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the whole world has gone after him."

²⁰Now there were certain Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast.

²¹So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

²²Philip came and told Andrew; and Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

²³And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

²⁴Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

²⁵The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

²⁶If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also my servant will be. And if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

²⁷"Now my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.

²⁸"Father, glorify your name." So a voice came from heaven: "I have both glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

²⁹So the crowd that stood there and heard it was saying that it was thunder; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

³⁰Jesus answered and said, "This voice has come not for my sake, but for yours.

³¹Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

³²And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

³³He said this signifying by what kind of death he was about to die.

³⁴So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ abides forever; and how is it that you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

³⁵So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

³⁶While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light." These things Jesus spoke, and departing he hid himself from them.

³⁷But although he had done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,

³⁸so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

³⁹For this reason they were not able to believe, because Isaiah said again:

⁴⁰"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."

⁴¹Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ's glory, and he spoke about him.

⁴²Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but on account of the Pharisees they were not confessing, so that they would not become expelled from the synagogue.

⁴³For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

⁴⁴And Jesus cried out and said: The one who believes in me does not believe in me but in the one who sent me;

⁴⁵and the one who beholds me beholds the one who sent me.

⁴⁶I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me may not remain in darkness.

⁴⁷And if anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

⁴⁸The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has one who judges him: the word that I spoke — that one will judge him on the last day.

⁴⁹For I did not speak from myself, but the Father who sent me — he himself has given me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak.

⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What therefore I speak, just as the Father has said to me, so I speak.