John 12:27-36

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.

Cross References

• 1. John 11:33; John 13:21; [Luke 22:44]
• 2. Mark 14:35; [Hebrews 5:7]
• 3. ver. 23
• 4. [John 18:37]
• 5. ver. 23
• 6. Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5; Mark 1:11; Mark 9:7; Luke 3:22; Luke 9:35; 2 Peter 1:17
• 7. Acts 23:9
• 8. John 11:42
• 9. John 16:11; [John 16:33]
• 10. John 14:30; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 6:12; [Matthew 13:19; Luke 4:6; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 5:19]
• 11. [Luke 10:18; Colossians 2:15; 1 John 3:8]
• 12. John 3:14; John 8:28
• 13. See John 6:44
• 14. Romans 5:18; Romans 8:32; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 1 Timothy 2:6; Hebrews 2:9; 1 John 2:2
• 15. John 18:32
• 16. Psalms 89:4; Psalms 110:4; Isaiah 9:7; Ezekiel 37:25; Luke 1:33
• 17. ver. 32
• 18. ver. 46; See John 1:4, 9; John 8:12
• 19. See John 7:33
• 20. Jeremiah 13:16; Ephesians 5:8
• 21. 1 Thessalonians 5:4
• 22. Isaiah 9:2; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 2:11; [John 11:10]
• 23. See Luke 10:6