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John 12:11Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:22So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:33Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:44But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:55“Why wasn’t this oil sold for 300 silver coins and the money given to the poor?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:66(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:77So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:88For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:99Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1010So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1111for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1212The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1313So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1414Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1515“Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt! ”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1616(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1717So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1818Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:1919Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2020Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2121So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2222Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2323Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2424I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2525The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2626If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2727“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2828Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:2929The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3030Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3131Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3232And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3333(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3434Then the crowd responded, “We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3535Jesus replied, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3636While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3737Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3838so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:3939For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4040“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4141Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4242Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4343For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4444But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4545and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4646I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4747If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4848The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:4949For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
John 12:5050And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
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