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Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Mary took a litron<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:3 i.e. about twelve ounces; the Gk. litron weighed about 12 ounces">b</a></span> of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus’ feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for 300 denarii<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:5 Three hundred denarii was about a year’s wages for a laborer.">c</a></span> and the money<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:5 The Gk. lacks the money">d</a></span> given to the destitute?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Jesus said, <span class="red">“Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>because you will always have the destitute with you, but you won’t always have me.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The Plot against Lazarus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.</p> <p class="heading">The King Enters Jerusalem</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/matthew/21.htm">Matthew 21:1-11</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/11.htm">Mark 11:1-11</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/19.htm">Luke 19:28-40</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting,</p> <p class="poetry2">“Hosanna!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:13 Hosanna is Heb. for Please save or Praise">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">How blessed is the one who comes</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">in the name of the Lord,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:13 Cf. Ps 118:25-26; MT source citation reads LORD">f</a></span> the King of Israel!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Stop being afraid, people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:15 Lit. daughter">g</a></span> of Zion.</p> <p class="poetry2">Look, your king is coming,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">sitting upon a donkey’s colt!”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:15 Cf. Zech 9:9">h</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>At first, his disciples didn’t understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:16 Lit. they">i</a></span> had done these things to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:17 The Gk. lacks to what they had seen">j</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The crowd was going out to meet Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:18 Lit. him">k</a></span> because they had heard that he had performed this sign. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the Pharisees told one another, “You see, there is nothing you can do. Look, the world has gone after him!”</p> <p class="heading">Some Greeks Ask to See Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Jesus told them, <span class="red">“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Truly, I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:24 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">l</a></span> emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Jesus Speaks about His Death</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">“Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say—‘Father, save me from this hour’? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Father, glorify your name.”</span></p> <p class="reg">Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder.</p> <p class="reg">Others were saying, “An angel has spoken to him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“This voice is for your benefit, not for mine. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:31 Lit. Now is the judgment of this world">m</a></span> Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then the crowd answered him, “We have learned<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:34 Lit. heard">n</a></span> from the Law that the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:34 Or Christ">o</a></span> remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Jesus replied to the crowd,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:35 Lit. them">p</a></span> <span class="red">“The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.”</span> After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.</p> <p class="heading">The Unbelief of the Jews</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“Lord,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:38 MT source citation reads LORD">q</a></span> who has believed our message,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">and to whom has the Lord’s<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:38 MT source citation reads LORD’s">r</a></span> power<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:38 Lit. arm">s</a></span> been revealed?”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:38 Isa 53:1">t</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>“He has blinded their eyes</p> <p class="poetry2">and hardened their heart,</p> <p class="poetry2">so that they might not perceive with their eyes,</p> <p class="poetry2">and understand with their mind<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:40 Lit. heart">u</a></span> and turn,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">and I would heal them.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:40 Cf. Isa 6:9-10">v</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Isaiah said this when<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:41 Other mss. read because">w</a></span> he saw his glory and spoke about him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.</p> <p class="heading">Judgment by Jesus’ Word</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Then Jesus said loudly, <span class="red">“The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:44 Lit. me but">x</a></span> in the one who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>The one who sees me sees the one who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>I’ve come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won’t remain in the darkness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>If anyone hears my words and doesn’t keep them, I don’t condemn him, because I didn’t come to condemn the world, but to save it.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="12:47 Lit. save the world">y</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>The one who rejects me and doesn’t receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I’ve spoken will judge him on the last day, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>because I haven’t spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/12-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>And I know that what he commands brings eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 12:1 Lit. <i>was</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 12:3 i.e. about twelve ounces; the Gk. <i>litron</i> weighed about 12 ounces<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 12:5 Three hundred denarii was about a year’s wages for a laborer.<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 12:5 The Gk. lacks <i>the money</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 12:13<i>Hosanna</i> is Heb. for <i>Please save</i> or <i>Praise</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 12:13 Cf. Ps 118:25-26; MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 12:15 Lit. <i>daughter</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 12:15 Cf. Zech 9:9<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 12:16 Lit. <i>they</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 12:17 The Gk. lacks <i>to what they had seen</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 12:18 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 12:24 The Gk. pronoun <i>you</i> is pl.<br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 12:31 Lit. <i>Now is the judgment of this world</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 12:34 Lit. <i>heard</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 12:34 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 12:35 Lit. <i>them</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 12:38 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 12:38 MT source citation reads <i>LORD’s</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 12:38 Lit. <i>arm</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 12:38 Isa 53:1<br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 12:40 Lit. <i>heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 12:40 Cf. 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