John 12:27-36 - Jesus Predicts His Death
27 Now my heart is troubled; what am I to say? Father, save me from this trial! And yet it was for this very purpose that I have come to this trial. 28 Father, honor your own name!" Then there came a voice from the sky, "I have honored it, and I will honor it again!"
29 The crowd of bystanders heard it and said it was thunder. Others said, "It was an angel speaking to him!"
30 Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours. 31 The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled, 32 and if I am lifted up from the ground, I will draw all men to myself." 33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here 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, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going. 36 While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.
21 Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."
22 So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"
23 He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world. 24 That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."
25 They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, 26 "Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."
27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father. 28 So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me. 29 And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."
30 As he said this, many believed in him.