< John 12 >
1 Then six days before the Passover, Yeshua came to Beth-Naiya, where Leayzar was, whom Yeshua raised from the dead.
2 So they prepared a dinner for him there; and Marta served, but Leayzar was one of those reclining at the table with him.
3 Maryam, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Yeshua, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4 Then Yehudah Sekariuta, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
5 "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"
6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
7 But Yeshua said, "Leave her alone, that she may keep this for the day of my burial.
8 For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me."
9 A large crowd therefore of the Yehudeans learned that he was there, and they came, not for Yeshua's sake only, but that they might see Leayzar also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests plotted to kill Leayzar also,
11 because on account of him many of the Jewish people went away and believed in Yeshua.
12 On the next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Yeshua was coming to Urishlim,
13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and were shouting, "Ushanna. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israyel."
14 And Yeshua, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
15 "Do not be afraid, daughter of Tsehyun. Look, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Yeshua was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
17 The crowd therefore that was with him when he called Leayzar out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.
18 For this cause also the crowd went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Look, the whole world has gone after him."
20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
21 These, therefore, came to Philipus, who was from Beth-Sayada of Galila, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Yeshua."
22 Philipus came and told Andreus, and in turn, Andreus came with Philipus, and they told Yeshua.
23 And Yeshua answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25 He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to everlasting life. (aiōnios )
26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27 "Now my soul is troubled; and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour?' But for this cause I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name." Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
29 The crowd therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
30 Yeshua answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to myself."
33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
34 The crowd answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Meshikha remains forever. Then how can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?" (aiōn )
35 Yeshua therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He 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 children of light." Yeshua said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him,
38 that the word of Eshaya the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
39 For this cause they could not believe, for Eshaya said again,
40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.
41 Eshaya said these things because he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue,
43 for they loved praise from people more than praise from God.
44 Then Yeshua shouted out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
45 And he who sees me sees him who sent me.
46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
47 And if anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who rejects me, and does not accept my words, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him on the last day.
49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 I know that his commandment is everlasting life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak." (aiōnios )
