27"1Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, '2Father, save Me from 3thishour '? But for this purpose I came to thishour.
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"4Father, glorify Your name."Then a 5voicecame out of heaven: "I have bothglorified it, and will glorify it again."
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So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered*; others were saying, "6An angel has spoken to Him."
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Jesusanswered and said, "7Thisvoice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
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"8Nowjudgment is upon thisworld; now9the ruler of thisworld will be cast out.
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"And I, if I 10am lifted up from the earth, will 11drawallmen to Myself."
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But He was sayingthis12to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.
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The crowdthenanswered Him, "We have heard out of 13the Law that 14the Christ is to remainforever; and how can You say, 'The 15Son of Manmust be 16lifted up'? Who is this17Son of Man?"
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SoJesussaid to them, "18For a littlewhilelonger19the Light is among you. 20Walkwhile you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who 21walks in the darkness does not knowwhere he goes.
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"While you have the Light, 22believe in the Light, so that you may become23sons of Light."ThesethingsJesusspoke, and He wentaway and 24hid Himself from them.
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But though He had performedsomanysignsbefore them, yet they were not believing in Him.
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This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophetwhich he spoke: "25LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?"
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For thisreason they could not believe, for Isaiahsaidagain,
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"26HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE 27HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO* THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM"
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ThesethingsIsaiahsaidbecause28he saw His glory, and 29he spoke of Him.
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Nevertheless*30manyeven of 31the rulersbelieved in Him, but 32because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear* that they would be 33put out of the synagogue;
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34for they loved the approval of menratherthan the approval of God.
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And Jesuscried out and said, "35He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.