John 12:27-36 - Jesus Predicts His Death

²⁷ Now I am distressed at heart and what can I say? Father, bring me safe through this hour--yet it was for this very reason that I came to this hour-- ²⁸ Father, honor thine own name." At this there came a voice from Heaven, which said: "I have already honored it, and I will honor it again."

²⁹ The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

³⁰ "It was not for my sake that the voice came," said Jesus, "but for yours. ³¹ Now this world is on its trial. Now the Spirit that is ruling this world shall be driven out; ³² And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw all men to myself." ³³ By these words he indicated what death he was destined to die.

³⁴ "We," replied the people, "have learned from the Law that the 'Christ is to remain for ever'; how is it, then, that you say that the Son of Man must be 'lifted up' Who is this 'Son of Man'?"

³⁵ "Only a little while longer," answered Jesus, "will you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you still have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be 'Sons of Light.'" After he had said this, Jesus went away, and hid himself from them.

²¹ Jesus again spoke to the people. "I am going away," he said, "and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going."

²² "Is he going to kill himself," the Jews exclaimed, "that he says-- 'You cannot go where I am going'?"

²³ "You," added Jesus, "are from below, I am from above; you are of this present world, I am not; ²⁴ And so I told you that you would die in your sins, for, unless you believe that I am what I am, you will die in your sins."

²⁵ "Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus. ²⁶ "I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgment on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him."

²⁷ They did not understand that he meant the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus added: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me. ²⁹ Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

³⁰ While he was speaking in this way, many came to believe in him.