12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. |
12:2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining {at the table} with Him. |
12:3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. |
12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, *said, |
12:5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor {people?}" |
12:6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it. |
12:7 Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial. |
12:8 "For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me." |
12:9 The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead. |
12:10 But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also; |
12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus. |
12:12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, |
12:13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and {began} to shout, "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel." |
12:14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written, |
12:15 "FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY'S COLT." |
12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him. |
12:17 So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify {about Him.} |
12:18 For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign. |
12:19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him." |
12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast; |
12:21 these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and {began to} ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." |
12:22 Philip *came and *told Andrew; Andrew and Philip *came and *told Jesus. |
12:23 And Jesus *answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. |
12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. |
12:25 "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. |
12:26 "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. |
12:27 "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, `Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour. |
12:28 "Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."" |
12:29 So the crowd {of people} who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him." |
12:30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes. |
12:31 "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. |
12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself." |
12:33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. |
12:34 The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, `The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?" |
12:35 So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. |
12:36 "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light. These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them." |
12:37 But though He had performed so many signs before them, {yet} they were not believing in Him. |
12:38 {This was} to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?" |
12:39 For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, |
12:40 "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM." |
12:41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him. |
12:42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing {Him,} for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue; |
12:43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God. |
12:44 And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. |
12:45 "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. |
12:46 "I have come {as} Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. |
12:47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. |
12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. |
12:49 "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment {as to} what to say and what to speak. |
12:50 "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me." |