John 12:31-50 ▼

31 now is a judgment of this world, now will the ruler of this world be cast forth;

32 and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”

33 And this He said signifying by what death He was about to die;

34 the multitude answered Him, “We heard that the Christ remains out of the Law—throughout the age; and how do You say that it is required that the Son of Man be lifted up? Who is this—the Son of Man?”

35 Therefore Jesus said to them, “Yet a short time is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness has not known where he goes;

36 while you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” Jesus spoke these things, and having gone away, He was hid from them,

37 yet He, having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in Him,

38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, “LORD, who gave credence to our report? And the arm of the LORD—to whom was it revealed?”

39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,

40 “He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn, and I might heal them”;

41 Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory, and spoke of Him.

42 Still, however, out of the rulers many also believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

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

44 And Jesus cried and said, “He who is believing in Me, does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me;

45 and He who is beholding Me, beholds Him who sent Me;

46 I—light to the world—have come, that everyone who is believing in Me may not remain in the darkness;

47 and if anyone may hear My sayings, and not believe, I do not judge him, for I did not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

48 He who is rejecting Me, and not receiving My sayings, has one who is judging him, the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day,

49 because I did not speak from Myself, but the Father who sent Me, He gave Me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

50 and I have known that His command is continuous life; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.”