Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

So Also Jesus Was Made High Priest By God

⁵ So also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but the One having said to Him [in Ps 2:7] “You are My Son. Today I have fathered You” did, ⁶ just as also in another place He says “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” [Ps 110:4],

Although Being a Son, He Learned Obedience From His Sufferings

⁷ ... Who, in the days of His flesh^[a] having offered both petitions and supplications^[b] with a strong outcry and tears to the One being able to save Him from^[c] death^[d], and having been heard because of His reverence^[e], ⁸ although being a Son^[f], learned obedience from the things which He suffered^[g].

And Jesus Became The Cause of Salvation, As High Priest In The Order of Melchizedek

⁹ And having been perfected^[h], He became the cause^[i] of eternal salvation to all the ones obeying Him, ¹⁰ having been designated^[j] by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek—

Jesus Says The Hour For Which He Came Has Come. A Seed Must Die To Bear Fruit

²⁰ Now some of the ones going up in order that they might worship at the Feast were Greeks^[a]. ²¹ So these ones came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus”. ²² Philip comes and tells Andrew. Andrew and Philip come, and they tell Jesus. ²³ And Jesus responds to them, saying, “The hour has come for^[b] the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the seed of wheat having fallen to the earth dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. ²⁵ The one loving his life loses it, and the one hating his life in this world will keep^[c] it for eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone serves Me, let him be following Me. And where I am, there also My servant will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. ²⁷ Now My soul has been troubled. And what should I say— ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this reason I came to this hour! ²⁸ Father, glorify Your name!”

Now Is The Judgment of This World. If I Am Lifted Up, I Will Draw All People To Myself

Then a voice came from heaven: “I both glorified it, and will again glorify it”. ²⁹ Then the crowd, the one standing there and having heard, was saying that thunder had taken place. Others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him”. ³⁰ Jesus responded and said, “This voice has taken place not for My sake, but for your sakes. ³¹ Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be cast out! ³² And if I am lifted-up^[d] from the earth, I will draw all people to Myself ”. ³³ Now He was saying this signifying by what-kind-of death He was going to die.