1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
2 So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him.
3 Then Mary took a pound
4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,
5 “
6 (Now he said this not because
7 So Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my preparation for burial.
8 For you have the poor with you always, but you do not always have me.”
9 Now the large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.
10 So the chief priests decided that they would kill Lazarus also,
11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going and believing in Jesus.
12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast,
13 took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out,
14 So Jesus found a young donkey
15 “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion!
16 (His disciples did not understand these
17 So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.
18 Because of this also the crowd went to meet him, for they had heard
19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him.”
20 Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.
21 So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
22 Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.
24 Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth
25 The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
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.
27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? But for this
28 Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have both glorified
29 Now the crowd that stood
30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not happened for my sake, but
31 Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all
33 (Now he said this to indicate by what sort of death he was going to die.)
34 Then the crowd replied to him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains
35 So Jesus said to them, “Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said these
37 But as many signs
38 in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said,
39 For this
40 “He has blinded their eyes
41 Isaiah said these
42 Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess
43 For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God.
44 But Jesus cried out and said, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,
45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
46 I have come
47 And if anyone hears my words and does not observe
48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has one who judges him; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me
50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So