John 12

John 12

12The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that
Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm trees
and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who
comes in the name of the Lord— the King of Israel!” 14Jesus found a
young donkey and sat on it; as it is written: 15“Do not be afraid, daughter
of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!” 16His
disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was
glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of
him and had been done to him. 17So the crowd that had been with him
when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead
continued to testify. 18It was also because they heard that he had
performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him. 19The Pharisees
then said to one another, “You see, you can do nothing. Look, the world
has gone after him!” 20Now among those who went up to worship at the
festival were some Greeks. 21They came to Philip, who was from
Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told
Jesus. 23Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to
be glorified. 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the
earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much
fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in
this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow

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me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me,
the Father will honor. 27“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I
say—’Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I
have come to this hour.