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- Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
- these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
- Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.
- And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
- "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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- "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
- "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
- "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
- "Father, glorify Your name " Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
- So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him."
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- Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
- "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
- "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
- But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.
- The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
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- So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
- "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light " These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.
- But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.
- This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?"
- For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
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- "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM."
- These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
- Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
- for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.
- And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.
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- "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
- "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
- "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
- "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
- "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.
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- "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."
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