John 12

Chapter 12

Mary Anoints Jesus

^1aJesus, therefore, six days before ^bthe Passover, came to ^cBethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

²So they made Him a supper there, and ^aMartha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

^3aMary then took a ¹pound of very costly ^bperfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

⁴But ^aJudas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to ¹betray Him, said,

⁵“Why was this perfume not sold for ¹three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”

⁶Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he ^ahad the money box, he used to pilfer ^bwhat was put into it.

⁷Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep ¹it for ^athe day of My burial.

⁸“^aFor you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

⁹The ^alarge crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, ^bwhom He raised from the dead.

¹⁰But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

¹¹because ^aon account of him ^bmany of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.

Jesus Enters Jerusalem

¹²On the next day ^athe large crowd who had come to ^bthe feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹³took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, “^aHosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the ^bKing of Israel.”

¹⁴Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,

¹⁵“^aFear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”

^16aThese things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus ^bwas glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

¹⁷So ^athe ¹people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.

^18aFor this reason also the ¹people went and met Him, ^bbecause they heard that He had performed this ²sign.

¹⁹So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”

Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰Now there were some ^aGreeks among those who were going up to worship at ^bthe feast;

²¹these then came to ^aPhilip, who was from ^bBethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

²²Philip came and told ^aAndrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

²³And Jesus answered them, saying, “^aThe hour has come for the Son of Man to ^bbe glorified.

²⁴“Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aunless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

²⁵“^aHe who loves his ¹life loses it, and he who ^bhates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

²⁶“If anyone ¹serves Me, he must follow Me; and ^awhere I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will ^bhonor him.

Jesus Foretells His Death

²⁷“^aNow My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘^bFather, save Me from ^cthis hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

²⁸“^aFather, glorify Your name.” Then a ^bvoice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

²⁹So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “^aAn angel has spoken to Him.”

³⁰Jesus answered and said, “^aThis voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.

³¹“^aNow judgment is upon this world; now ^bthe ruler of this world will be cast out.

³²“And I, if I ^aam lifted up from the earth, will ^bdraw all men to Myself.”

³³But He was saying this ^ato indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

³⁴The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of ^athe Law that ^1bthe Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The ^cSon of Man must be ^dlifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

³⁵So Jesus said to them, “^aFor a little while longer ^bthe Light is among you. ^cWalk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who ^dwalks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

³⁶“While you have the Light, ^abelieve in the Light, so that you may become ^bsons of Light.”

These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and ^1chid Himself from them.

³⁷But though He had performed so many ¹signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.

³⁸This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “^aLord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

³⁹For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

⁴⁰“^aHe has blinded their eyes and He ^bhardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and ¹be converted and I heal them.”

⁴¹These things Isaiah said because ^ahe saw His glory, and ^bhe spoke of Him.

⁴²Nevertheless ^amany even of ^bthe rulers believed in Him, but ^cbecause of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be ^1dput out of the synagogue;

^43afor they loved the ¹approval of men rather than the approval of God.

⁴⁴And Jesus cried out and said, “^aHe who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.

⁴⁵“^aHe who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

⁴⁶“^aI have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

⁴⁷“If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for ^aI did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁸“^aHe who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; ^bthe word I spoke is what will judge him at ^cthe last day.

⁴⁹“^aFor I did not speak ¹on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me ^bhas given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

⁵⁰“I know that ^aHis commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak ^bjust as the Father has told Me.”