New Testament in a Year
27 “I am troubled[a] now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.(A) 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”(B) 29 The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”(C) 30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.(D) 31 Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world[b] will be driven out.(E) 32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”(F) 33 He said this indicating the kind of death he would die. 34 So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever.[c] Then how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”(G) 35 Jesus said to them, “The light will be among you only a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where he is going.(H) 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.”(I)
Unbelief and Belief Among the Jews. After he had said this, Jesus left and hid from them. 37 [d](J)Although he had performed so many signs in their presence they did not believe in him, 38 [e]in order that the word which Isaiah the prophet spoke might be fulfilled:
“Lord, who has believed our preaching,
to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?”(K)
39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said:
40 “He blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they might not see with their eyes
and understand with their heart and be converted,
and I would heal them.”(L)
41 Isaiah said this because he saw his glory[f] and spoke about him.(M) 42 Nevertheless, many, even among the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge it openly in order not to be expelled from the synagogue.(N) 43 For they preferred human praise to the glory of God.(O)
Recapitulation. 44 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me,(P) 45 and whoever sees me sees the one who sent me.(Q) 46 I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.(R) 47 And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world.(S) 48 Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day,(T) 49 because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.(U) 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.”
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