12.1 Six days before the Passover,
Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was,
whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
12.2 There they made him a supper; Martha served,
but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.
12.3 Mary took a pound of costly ointment 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 ointment.
12.4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples
(he who was to betray him), said,
12.5 "Why was this ointment not sold
for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"
12.6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor
but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box
he used to take what was put into it.
12.7 Jesus said, "Let her alone,
let her keep it for the day of my burial.
12.8 The poor you always have with you,
but you do not always have me."12.9 When the great crowd of the Jews learned
that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus
but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
12.10 So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death,
12.11 because on account of him many of the Jews
were going away and believing in Jesus.
12.12 The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
12.13 So they took branches of palm trees
and went out to meet him, crying, "Hosanna!
Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord,
even the King of Israel!"
12.14 And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it;
as it is written,
12.15 "Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold thy king is coming,
sitting on an ass's colt!"
12.16 His disciples did not understand this at first;
but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered
that this had been written of him and had been done to him.
12.17 The crowd that had been with him
when he called Lazarus out of the tomb
and raised him from the dead bore witness.
12.18 The reason why the crowd went to meet him
was that they heard he had done this sign.
12.19 The Pharisees then said to one another,
"You see that you can do nothing;
look, the world has gone after him."
12.20 Now among those who went up to worship
at the feast were some Greeks.
12.21 So these came to Philip,
who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him,
"Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
12.22 Philip went and told Andrew;
Andrew went with Philip and they told Jesus.
12.23 And Jesus answered them,
"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 for eternal life.
12.26 If any one serves me, he must follow me;
and where I am, there shall my servant be also;
if any one serves me, the Father will honor him.12.27 "Now is my soul troubled.
And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'?
No, for this purpose I have come to this hour.
12.28 Father, glorify thy name."
Then a voice came from heaven,
"I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
12.29 The crowd standing by heard it
and said that it had thundered.
Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
12.30 Jesus answered,
"This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.
12.31 Now is the judgment of this world,
now shall the ruler of this world be cast out;
12.32 and I, when I am lifted up from the earth,
will draw all men to myself."
12.33 He said this to show by what death he was to die.
12.34 The crowd answered him,
"We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever.
How can you say that the Son of man must be lifted up?
Who is this Son of man?"
12.35 Jesus said to them,
"The light is with you for a little longer.
Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness 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,
that you may become sons of light."
When Jesus had said this,
he departed and hid himself from them.
12.37 Though he had done so many signs before them,
yet they did not believe in him;
12.38 it was that the word spoken
by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
"Lord, who has believed our report,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
12.39 Therefore they could not believe.
For Isaiah again said,
12.40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart,
lest they should see with their eyes
and perceive with their heart,
and turn for me to heal them."
12.41 Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
12.42 Nevertheless many even of the authorities believed in him,
but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it,
lest they should be put out of the synagogue;
12.43 for they loved the praise of men
more than the praise of God.12.44 And Jesus cried out and said,
"He who believes in me, believes not in me
but in him who sent me.
12.45 And he who sees me sees him who sent me.
12.46 I have come as light into the world,
that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
12.47 If any one 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 a judge; the word that I have spoken
will be his judge on the last day.
12.49 For I have not spoken on my own authority;
the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment
what to say and what to speak.
12.50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life.
What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has bidden me."