1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, the man who had died and whom he had raised from the dead.
2 They gave a dinner for him there; Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.
3 Mary then took a pound of pure nard, a very expensive perfume, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped his feet dry with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the scent of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, the one who was going to betray him, said,
5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?"
6 He said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the money box and used to help himself to what was put in it.
7 So Jesus said, "Let her be; she has kept this for the day of my burial.
8 For you always have the poor among you, but you do not always have me."
9 A large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus too,
11 since because of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.
12 The following day the great crowd that had come for the feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 "Stop being afraid, daughter of Zion; look, your King is coming, seated on a donkey's colt."
16 At first his disciples did not understand these things; but when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things for him.
17 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead went on testifying.
18 That was also why the crowd went out to meet him: they had heard that he had performed this sign.
19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you are getting nowhere. Look, the whole world has gone off after him!"
20 Among those going up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
21 These came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made a request of him: "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."
22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn went and told Jesus.
23 Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it stays just a single grain; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, my servant will be there too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27 Now my soul is in turmoil, and what am I to say? 'Father, rescue me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason that I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
29 The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder; others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
30 Jesus responded, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.
31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to myself."
33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
35 Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you; whoever walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light." After saying these things, Jesus went away and was hidden from them.
37 Although he had performed so many signs in front of them, they still did not believe in him,
38 so that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
39 That is why they could not believe, for again Isaiah said,
40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart and turn back, and I would heal them."
41 Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke of him.
42 Even so, many even of the leaders believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess it, so as not to be expelled from the synagogue;
43 for they loved praise from people more than praise from God.
44 Jesus called out, "Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in the one who sent me.
45 And whoever sees me sees the one who sent me.
46 I have come into the world as light, so that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness.
47 If anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 For I have not spoken on my own; the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and what to speak.
50 And I know that his command is eternal life. So what I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me."