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12:1  Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
12:2  They gave a dinner there for him. Martha served the meal, and Lazarus was among those at table with him.
12:3  Mary brought in a pint of very costly ointment, made from pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and dried them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
12:4  Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was about to betray him, said,
12:5  “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
12:6  He said this not because he had any concern for the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money bag, and he used to steal from it.
12:7  Jesus said in response, “Leave her alone! Let her keep it for the day of my burial.
12:8  The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.”
12:9  Meanwhile, a large number of Jews learned that he was there, and they came not only because of Jesus but also because they wanted to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
12:10  The chief priests then decided to put Lazarus to death as well,
12:11  since it was because of him that many of the Jews were leaving and putting their faith in Jesus.
12:12  The next day the great crowd of people who had come for the feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
12:13  Thus, they went out to meet him, carrying branches of palm and shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel.”
12:14  Jesus found a young donkey and rode it, as it is written,
12:15  “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”
12:16  At first, his disciples did not understand this, but later, when Jesus had been glorified, they recalled that these things had been written about him and had happened to him.
12:17  Now the people who had been present when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify about this.
12:18  Because the crowd had heard that he had performed this sign, they went out to meet him.
12:19  So the Pharisees said to one another, “As you see, we are getting nowhere. The entire world has gone after him.”
12:20  Among those who had come up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
12:21  They approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.
12:22  Philip went to tell Andrew of this, and Philip and Andrew informed Jesus.
12:23  Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
12:24  Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat. However, if it dies, it bears much fruit.
12:25  “Anyone who loves his life loses it, but the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
12:26  If anyone wishes to serve me, he must follow me. Where I am, there also will my servant be. If anyone serves me, my Father will honor that person.
12:27  “Now my soul is troubled. Yet what should I say: ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this that 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 present heard this, and some of them said that it was thunder, while others asserted, “An angel has spoken to him.”
12:30  Jesus answered, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.
12:31  Now is the judgment on this world. Now the prince of this world will be driven out.
12:32  And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to myself.”
12:33  He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
12:34  The crowd answered, “Our Law teaches that the Christ will remain forever. How then can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
12:35  Jesus replied, “The light will be with you for only a little longer. Go on your way while you still have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. “Whoever 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 children of light.” After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid himself from their sight.
12:37  Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him.
12:38  This was to fulfill the word of the prophet Isaiah, “Lord, who has believed our preaching? To whom has the power of the Lord been revealed?”
12:39  They therefore could not believe for as Isaiah said,
12:40  “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and thereby be converted, so that I could heal them.”
12:41  Isaiah said this because he saw his glory, and his words referred to him.
12:42  Nevertheless, there were many, even among the authorities, who believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess their faith in him, for fear of being banned from the synagogue.
12:43  For they valued human glory more highly than the glory that comes from God.
12:44  Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but in him who sent me.
12:45  And whoever 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 may not have to remain in darkness.
12:47  “But if anyone listens to my words and fails to observe them, I will not pass judgment on him, for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
12:48  Anyone who rejects me and does not accept my words already has a judge. On the last day, the word that I have spoken will serve as his judge.
12:49  “For I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me command about what I am to say and how I am to speak.
12:50  I know that his commandment is eternal life. Therefore, what I speak is what the Father has told me to say.”