²⁵ Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it^(A) for eternal life.^{(B) 26} Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be.^(C) My Father will honor the one who serves me.

²⁷ “Now my soul is troubled,^(D) and what shall I say? ‘Father,^(E) save me from this hour’?^(F) No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven,^(G) “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” ²⁹ The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

³⁰ Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit,^(H) not mine. ³¹ Now is the time for judgment on this world;^(I) now the prince of this world^(J) will be driven out. ³² And I, when I am lifted up^[a] from the earth,^(K) will draw all people to myself.”^{(L) 33} He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.^(M)

³⁴ The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law^(N) that the Messiah will remain forever,^(O) so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man^(P) must be lifted up’?^(Q) Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

³⁵ Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light^(R) just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light,^(S) before darkness overtakes you.^(T) Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. ³⁶ Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.”^(U) When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.^(V)

Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews

³⁷ Even after Jesus had performed so many signs^(W) in their presence, they still would not believe in him. ³⁸ This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory^(Z) and spoke about him.^(AA)

⁴² Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.^(AB) But because of the Pharisees^(AC) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;^{(AD) 43} for they loved human praise^(AE) more than praise from God.^(AF)

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^{(AG) 45} The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^{(AH) 46} I have come into the world as a light,^(AI) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

⁴⁷ “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.^{(AJ) 48} There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them^(AK) at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me^(AL) to say all that I have spoken. ⁵⁰ I know that his command leads to eternal life.^(AM) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”^(AN)