John 12:12–34

¹²On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem, ¹³took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, ‘Hosanna, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord—the king of Israel;’ ¹⁴and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written, ¹⁵‘Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass’ colt.’ ¹⁶And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him. ¹⁷The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead; ¹⁸because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign, ¹⁹the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, ‘Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.’

²⁰And there were certain Greeks out of those coming up that they may worship in the feast, ²¹these then came near to Philip, who is from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, ‘Sir, we wish to see Jesus;’ ²²Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. ²³And Jesus responded to them, saying, ‘The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified; ²⁴verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit; ²⁵he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world—to life age-during shall keep it; ²⁶if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me—honour him will the Father.

²⁷‘Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say—Father, save me from this hour?—but because of this I came to this hour; ²⁸Father, glorify Thy name.’ There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, ‘I both glorified, and again I will glorify it;’ ²⁹the multitude, therefore, having stood and heard, were saying that there hath been thunder; others said, ‘A messenger hath spoken to him.’ ³⁰Jesus answered and said, ‘Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you; ³¹now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth; ³²and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.’ ³³And this he said signifying by what death he was about to die; ³⁴the multitude answered him, ‘We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain—to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this—the Son of Man?’