Chapter 12
1 Jesus, then, six days before the Passover, came to
Bethany, where Lazarus was who had died, whom Jesus rouses from among the dead.
2 They make, then, for Him a dinner there, and Martha
served. Now Lazarus was one of those lying back at table with Him.
3 Mary, then, taking a pound troy of veritable nard
attar, very precious, rubs the feet of Jesus and wipes off His feet with her hair. Now the
house was filled with the odor of the attar.
4 Now Judas of Simon Iscariot, one of His disciples (who
is about to give Him up) is saying,
5 "Wherefore was not this attar disposed of for
three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"
6 Now this he said, not that he cared concerning the
poor, but that he was a thief, having the coffer also, and bore what is cast into it.
7 Jesus, then, said, "Let her be, that she should be
keeping it for the day of My burial.
8 For the poor you have always with you, yet Me you have
not always."
9 The vast throng, then, of the Jews, knew that He is
there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might become acquainted
with Lazarus also, whom Jesus rouses from among the dead.
10 Yet the chief priests also plan that they should be
killing Lazarus also,
11 for many of the Jews went because of him, and believed
in Jesus.
12 On the morrow the vast throng, who are coming for the
festival, hearing that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,
13 got fronds of palms and came out to meet Him. And they
clamored, saying, "Hosanna! Blessed is He Who is coming in the name of the
Lord!" and "The King of Israel!"
14 Now Jesus, finding a little ass, is seated on it,
according as it is written,
15 Do not fear, daughter of Zion! Lo! your King is
coming, sitting on an ass's colt.
16 Now these things are not known to His disciples at
first, but when Jesus is glorified, then they are reminded that these things were written
of Him and these things they do to Him.
17 The throng, then, which is with Him when He summons
Lazarus out of the tomb, and rouses him from among the dead, was testifying.
18 Therefore, also, the vast throng meets Him, for they
hear that He has done this sign.
19 The Pharisees, then, say to themselves, "You are
beholding that you are benefiting nothing. Lo! the world came away after him!"
20 Now there were some Greeks from among those going up
that they should be worshiping in the festival.
21 These, then, came to Philip who is from Bethsaida of
Galilee, and they asked him, saying, "Lord, we want to become acquainted with
Jesus."
22 Philip is coming and telling Andrew, and again Andrew
and Philip are coming and telling Jesus.
23 Yet Jesus is answering them, saying, "Come has
the hour that the Son of Mankind should be glorified.
24 "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If a kernel
of grain, falling into the earth, should not be dying, it is remaining alone, yet if it
should be dying, it is bringing forth much fruit.
25 He who is fond of his soul is destroying it, and he
who is hating his soul in this world, shall be guarding it for life eonian.
26 "If anyone should be serving Me, let him be
following Me, and where I am, there My servant also shall be. And if anyone should be
serving Me, the Father shall be honoring him.
27 Now is My soul disturbed. And what may I be saying?
'Father, save Me out of this hour'?
28 But therefore came I into this hour. Father, glorify
Thy name!" A voice, then, came out of heaven, "I glorify it also, and shall be
glorifying it again!"
29 The throng, then, which stands and hears it, said,
"A thunderclap has come!" Others said, "A messenger has spoken to
Him!"
30 Jesus answered and said, "Not because of Me has
come this voice, but because of you.
31 Now is the judging of this world. Now shall the Chief
of this world be cast out.
32 And I, if I should be exalted out of the earth, shall
be drawing all to Myself."
33 Now this He said, signifying by what death He was
about to be dying.
34 The throng, then, answered Him, "We hear out of
the law that the Christ is remaining for the eon, and how are you saying that the Son of
Mankind must be exalted? Who is this Son of Mankind?"
35 Jesus, then, said to them, "Still a little time
the light is among you. Be walking while you have the light, lest the darkness may be
overtaking you. And he who is walking in the darkness is not aware whither he is going.
36 As you have the light, be believing in the light, that
you may be becoming sons of light." These things Jesus speaks, and, coming away, He
was hid from them.
37 Yet, after His having done so many signs in front of
them, they believed not in Him,
38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet, which he said,
may be being fulfilled, "Lord, who believes our tidings? And the arm of the Lord, to
whom was it revealed?"
39 Therefore they could not believe, seeing that Isaiah
said again
40 that He has blinded their eyes and callouses their
heart, lest they may be perceiving with their eyes, and should be apprehending with their
heart, and may be turning about, and I shall be healing them.
41 These things Isaiah said, seeing that he perceived His
glory, and speaks concerning Him.
42 Howbeit, likewise, of the chiefs also many believe in
Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not avow it, lest they may be put out of the
synagogue,
43 for they love the glory of men rather than even the
glory of God.
44 Now Jesus cries and said, "He who is believing in
Me is not believing in Me, but in Him Who sends Me.
45 And he who is beholding Me is beholding Him Who sends
Me.
46 I have come into the world a Light, that everyone who
is believing in Me should not be remaining in darkness.
47 "And if ever anyone should be hearing My
declarations and not be maintaining them, I am not judging him, for I came not that I
should be judging the world, but that I should be saving the world.
48 He who is repudiating Me and not getting My
declarations, has that which is judging him; the word which I speak, that will be judging
him in the last day,
49 seeing that I speak not from Myself, but the Father Who sends
Me, He has given Me the precept, what I may be saying and what I should be speaking.
50 And I am aware that His precept is life eonian. What,
then, I am speaking, according as the Father has declared it to Me, thus am I
speaking." |