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12:1  · Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead.
12:2  So they made a dinner for him there. · · Martha was serving, · and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him.
12:3  · Mary took more than a pint of expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair. The · house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
12:4  But Judas · Iscariot, one of · his disciples (the one who would betray him) said,
12:5  “Why was not this · perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
12:6  He said · this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as keeper of the money box, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
12:7  Jesus therefore said, · “Leave her alone. She had to keep this perfume for the day of my burial.
12:8  For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.”
12:9  When a large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, · they came, not only on account of · Jesus but also that they might see · Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.
12:10  So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, ·
12:11  because on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him. ·
12:12  The next day the large crowd that had come to the festival, on hearing that Jesus was coming · to Jerusalem,
12:13  took · branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. · They began to cry out, “Hosanna! Blessed in the name of the Lord is the coming one, even the king of Israel!”
12:14  And Jesus found · a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written,
12:15  “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion; behold, · your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!”
12:16  His disciples did not understand these things · · at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that they had done these things 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 continued to bear witness.
12:18  For this reason the crowd went to meet him, that is, because they heard he had performed this · sign.
12:19  The Pharisees therefore said to one another, “You see, you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”
12:20  Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.
12:21  So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we would like to see · Jesus.”
12:22  Philip went · and told · Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told · Jesus.
12:23  · And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
12:24  I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single kernel; but if it dies it produces a great harvest.
12:25  The one who loves · his life loses it, and the one who hates · his life in · this world preserves it for eternal life.
12:26  If anyone would serve me, he must follow me; and where I am, my servant will be there also. · · If anyone would serve me, the Father will honor him.
12:27  “Now is · my heart deeply troubled. And what am I to say? ‘Father, deliver me from · this hour’? But for this very purpose I have come to · this hour!
12:28  Father, glorify your · name.” Then a voice came from · heaven: · “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
12:29  The crowd that was standing there and had heard the voice said that it was thunder; others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
12:30  Jesus answered, · saying, “This voice was not for my benefit, · but for yours.
12:31  “Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be driven out.
12:32  And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
12:33  He said this · to signify the kind of death he was going to die.
12:34  The crowd responded, “We have heard from the law that the Christ is to remain for all time; so how is it that you are saying that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this · Son of Man?”
12:35  Then Jesus said to them, · “The light will be with you for yet a little while. Keep walking while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. · The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
12:36  While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus said these things, · he went away and hid himself from them.
12:37  Though he had done such great · signs in their presence, they continued in their unbelief toward him,
12:38  that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
12:39  The reason why they could not believe was that in another place Isaiah 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, and I would heal them.”
12:41  Isaiah said these things because he saw · Christ’s glory and spoke of him.
12:42  Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they would not confess it openly, lest they be expelled from the synagogue.
12:43  For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
12:44  Then Jesus cried out, · saying, “The one who believes in me believes not only in me but in the one who sent me.
12:45  And the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
12:46  I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in · darkness.
12:47  · If anyone hears my · words and does not keep them, I am not the one who will judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
12:48  The one who rejects me and does not receive · my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him at the last day.
12:49  For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and what to speak.
12:50  And I know that · his command is eternal life. So whatever I say, I speak just as the Father has told me.”