John 12:37–50

³⁷Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him. ³⁸This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

“Lord, who has believed our message,

and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”^*

³⁹And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,

⁴⁰“He has blinded their eyes

and hardened their heart,

so that they might not look with their eyes

and understand with their heart and turn—

and I would heal them.”^*

⁴¹Isaiah said this because^k he saw his glory and spoke about him.^{* 42}Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue,^{* 43}for they loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God.

Summary of Jesus’s Teaching

⁴⁴Then Jesus cried aloud: “Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me.^{* 45}And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.^{* 46}I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.^{* 47}I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.^{* 48}The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,^{* 49}for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”