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John 12:32
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30 Jesus answered and said, a“This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.  
31 Now is the judgment of this world; now athe ruler of this world will be cast out.  
32 And I, aif I am lifted up from the earth, will draw ball peoples to Myself.”  
33 aThis He said, signifying by what death He would die.  
34 The people answered Him, a“We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”  
35 Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer athe light is with you. bWalk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; che who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 12:32

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me—The "I" here is emphatic—I, taking the place of the world's ejected prince. "If lifted up," means not only after that I have been lifted up, but, through the virtue of that uplifting. And truly, the death of the Cross, in all its significance, revealed in the light, and borne in upon the heart, by the power of the Holy Ghost, possesses an attraction over the wide world—to civilized and savage, learned and illiterate, alike—which breaks down all opposition, assimilates all to itself, and forms out of the most heterogeneous and discordant materials a kingdom of surpassing glory, whose uniting principle is adoring subjection "to Him that loved them." "Will draw all men 'UNTO ME,'" says He. What lips could venture to utter such a word but His, which "dropt as an honeycomb," whose manner of speaking was evermore in the same spirit of conscious equality with the Father?



John 12:29-33

The people therefore that stood by, said, It thundered; others, An angel spake to him—some hearing only a sound, others an articulate, but to them unintelligible voice.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 12:32:

Song of Solomon 1:4
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John 3:14-16
John 18:32
Colossians 3:1

 

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