John 12:27-36 - Jesus Predicts His Death
27 My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour: 28 I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
29 When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him."
30 Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. 31 Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled. 32 But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." 33 (By this he indicated the kind of death he was to die.)
34 So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"
35 Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be sons of the Light." [vss 36b to
21 Then he said to them again, "I go away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come."
22 So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?"
23 He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world. 24 So I told you, you would die in your sins; for unless you believe who I am, you will die in your sins."
25 They said, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Why should I talk to you at all? 26 I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."
27 They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father; 28 so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me. 29 He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."
30 As he said this, a number believed in him.