The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 12
{12:1} Then six days before the Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah,
where El'azar was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
{12:2} So they made him a supper there. Marta served, but El'azar was
one of those who sat at the table with him. {12:3} Miryam, therefore,
took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the
feet of Yeshua, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled
with the fragrance of the ointment. {12:4} Then Yehudah from K'riot,
Shim`on's son, one of his [1>]talmidim[<1], who would betray him,
said, {12:5} "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,
and given to the poor?" {12:6} 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. {12:7} But Yeshua said, "Leave her
alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. {12:8} For you
always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
{12:9} A large crowd therefore of the Yehudim learned that he was
there, and they came, not for Yeshua#s sake only, but that they might
see El'azar also, whom he had raised from the dead. {12:10} But the
chief [2>]Kohanim[<2] conspired to put El'azar to death also, {12:11}
because on account of him many of the Yehudim went away and believed
in Yeshua.
{12:12} On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast.
When they heard that Yeshua was coming to Yerushalayim, {12:13} they
took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and
cried out, "Hoshia`na! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord, the King of Yisra'el!"
{12:14} Yeshua, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is
written, {12:15} "Don't be afraid, daughter of Tziyon. Behold, your
King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt." {12:16} His [3>]talmidim[<3]
didn't 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. {12:17} The multitude
therefore that was with him when he called El'azar out of the tomb,
and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it. {12:18} For
this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard
that he had done this sign. {12:19} The Perushim therefore said among
themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has
gone after him."
{12:20} Now there were certain Yevanim among those that went up to
worship at the feast. {12:21} These, therefore, came to Pilipos, who
was from Beit-Tzaidah of the Galil, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we
want to see Yeshua." {12:22} Pilipos came and told Andrai, and in
turn, Andrai came with Pilipos, and they told Yeshua. {12:23} Yeshua
answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
{12:24} Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into
the [4>]eretz[<4] and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it
dies, it bears much fruit. {12:25} He who loves his life will lose it.
He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
{12:26} If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will
my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
{12:27} "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me
from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time. {12:28}
Father, glorify your name!"
Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both
glorified it, and will glorify it again."
{12:29} The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said
that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
{12:30} Yeshua answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but
for your sakes. {12:31} Now is the judgment of this world. Now the
prince of this world will be cast out. {12:32} And I, if I am lifted
up from the [5>]eretz[<5], will draw all people to myself." {12:33}
But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
{12:34} The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that
the Messiah remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be
lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
{12:35} Yeshua therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light
is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't
overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is
going. {12:36} While you have the light, believe in the light, that
you may become sons of light." Yeshua said these things, and he
departed and hid himself from them. {12:37} But though he had done so
many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him, {12:38} that
the word of Yesha`yahu the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
"Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
{12:39} For this cause they couldn't believe, for Yesha`yahu said
again,
{12:40} "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
And perceive with their heart,
And would turn,
And I would heal them."
{12:41} Yesha`yahu said these things when he saw his glory, and
spoke of him. {12:42} Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in
him, but because of the Perushim they didn't confess it, so that they
wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, {12:43} for they loved men's
praise more than God's praise.
{12:44} Yeshua cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes
not in me, but in him who sent me. {12:45} He who sees me sees him who
sent me. {12:46} I have come as a light into the world, that whoever
believes in me may not remain in the darkness. {12:47} If anyone
listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I
came not to judge the world, but to save the world. {12:48} He who
rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him.
The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
{12:49} For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he
gave me a [6>]mitzvah[<6], what I should say, and what I should speak.
{12:50} I know that his [7>]mitzvah[<7] is eternal life. The things
therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I
speak."
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:4} disciples
[2] {12:10} priests
[3] {12:16} disciples
[4] {12:24} earth
[5] {12:32} earth
[6] {12:49} commandment
[7] {12:50} commandment
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