John 12:27-43

The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up

27 ¹"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, ²save me from ³this hour'? But ⁴for this purpose I have come to ⁵this hour.

28 Father, glorify your name." Then ⁶a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

29 The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, ⁷"An angel has spoken to him."

30 Jesus answered, ⁸"This voice has come for your sake, not mine.

31 ⁹Now is the judgment of this world; now will ¹⁰the ruler of this world ¹¹be cast out.

32 And I, ¹²when I am lifted up from the earth, ¹³will draw ¹⁴all people to myself."

33 He said this ¹⁵to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

34 So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that ¹⁶the Christ remains forever. How can you say that ¹⁷the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

35 So Jesus said to them, ¹⁸"The light is among you ¹⁹for a little while longer. ²⁰Walk while you have the light, lest darkness ²¹overtake you. ²²The 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 ²³sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.

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

38 ²⁴so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: ²⁵"Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

39 Therefore they ²⁶could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

40 ²⁷"He has blinded their eyes and ²⁸hardened 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 ²⁹he saw his glory and ³⁰spoke of him.

42 Nevertheless, ³¹many even of the authorities believed in him, but ³²for fear of the Pharisees they did not ³³confess it, so that they would not be ³⁴put out of the synagogue;

43 ³⁵for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.