John 12:23-50 ▼

23 And Jesus answered them, |The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

25 He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to everlasting life.

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

27 |Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say? 'Father, save me from this hour?' But for this cause I came to this hour.

28 Father, glorify your name.| Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, |I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.|

29 The crowd therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, |An angel has spoken to him.|

30 Jesus answered, |This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.

31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

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

33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

34 The crowd answered him, |We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. Then how can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?|

35 Jesus therefore said to them, |Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.| Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him,

38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, |Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?|

39 For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.

41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue,

43 for they loved praise from people more than praise from God.

44 Then Jesus shouted out and said, |Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

45 And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

47 And if anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

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

49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

50 I know that his commandment is everlasting life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.|