John 12:34-44

34 So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that ¹the Christ remains forever. How can you say that ²the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? ”

35 So Jesus said to them, ³“The light is among you ⁴for a little while longer. ⁵Walk while you have the light, lest darkness ⁶overtake you. ⁷The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become ⁸sons of light. ”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.

The Unbelief of the People

37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,

38 ⁹so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: ¹⁰“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ”

39 Therefore they ¹¹could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

40 ¹²“He has blinded their eyes and ¹³hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them. ”

41 Isaiah said these things because ¹⁴he saw his glory and ¹⁵spoke of him.

42 Nevertheless, ¹⁶many even of the authorities believed in him, but ¹⁷for fear of the Pharisees they did not ¹⁸confess it, so that they would not be ¹⁹put out of the synagogue;

43 ²⁰for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

Jesus Came to Save the World

44 And Jesus cried out and said, ²¹“Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but ²²in him who sent me.