John 12 (NET)

John 12:1¹Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 14:3-8John 11:1Luke 24:50John 11:55Matt 21:17John 11:44John 12:20Mark 11:11Matt 26:6-11

John 12:2²So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 22:27Rev 3:20Luke 10:38-42John 12:9-10Mark 14:3John 11:43-44Luke 12:37Matt 26:6Luke 14:12Luke 5:29

John 12:3³Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 14:3-9John 11:2Luke 10:38-39Luke 7:37-38Matt 26:6-13John 11:32John 11:28Luke 7:46Song 4:13-14Song 1:3

John 12:4⁴But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:41 Sam 17:28-29John 13:2John 18:2-5Eccl 4:4John 13:26John 6:70-71Luke 6:16

John 12:5⁵“Why wasn’t this oil sold for 300 silver coins and the money given to the poor?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:33Luke 18:22Mark 14:4-5Matt 26:8-9Luke 6:41Mal 1:10-13Amos 8:5Exod 5:17Exod 5:8John 6:7

John 12:6⁶(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 13:29Ps 50:16-20Jas 2:6Jas 2:22 Kgs 5:20-271 Cor 6:10Gal 2:102 Kgs 12:14-15Ezek 33:31Ezra 8:24-34

John 12:7⁷So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 26:12Mark 14:6Matt 26:10Matt 27:57-60John 19:38-42Luke 23:50Mark 15:42-47Ps 109:31Zech 3:2

John 12:8⁸For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 15:11Mark 14:7John 12:35Matt 26:11John 13:33John 8:21Acts 1:9-11John 16:5-7Song 5:6

John 12:9⁹Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:14Acts 3:10-11John 11:43-45

John 12:10¹⁰So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 16:31Gen 4:4-10John 11:47-53Matt 2:16Dan 5:21-23Eccl 9:3Exod 10:3Job 15:25-26Job 40:8-9John 11:57

John 12:11¹¹for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:45John 12:18Acts 13:45Jas 3:14-16John 11:48John 15:18-25John 7:31

John 12:12¹²The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 11:7-10Luke 19:35-38Matt 21:4-9John 11:55-56

John 12:13¹³So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:25-26Rev 15:3Luke 19:35-38Matt 21:9-11Mark 11:8-10Rev 7:9Hos 3:5John 1:49Matt 23:39Ps 72:17-19

John 12:14¹⁴Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 9:9Mark 11:1-7Matt 21:1-7Luke 19:29-35

John 12:15¹⁵“Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt! ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 9:9Isa 62:11Zeph 3:16-17Isa 35:4-52 Sam 16:2

John 12:16¹⁶(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 2:22John 14:26John 7:39Acts 2:36John 12:23Acts 2:33Acts 3:13Heb 12:2Heb 8:1John 16:4

John 12:17¹⁷So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:9-12Rev 1:2Acts 1:22Acts 5:32John 12:9John 19:35John 1:19John 1:32John 1:34John 11:31

John 12:18¹⁸Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:11

John 12:19¹⁹Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:6Acts 4:16-17Ps 22:271 John 2:2Acts 5:27-28Isa 27:6John 17:21John 3:26John 11:47-50Luke 19:47-48

John 12:20²⁰Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:35Acts 17:4Isa 11:101 Kgs 8:41-43Acts 8:27Mark 7:26Gal 2:3Acts 14:1Acts 16:1Acts 20:21

John 12:21²¹So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 2:2Luke 19:2-4John 14:8-9John 6:40John 1:36-39John 1:43-47Matt 11:21Matt 15:22-28John 6:5-7Matt 8:9-12

John 12:22²²Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:40-41Luke 9:49-50Mark 10:13-14John 6:8Matt 10:5

John 12:23²³Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 13:31-32John 17:1-5Mark 14:411 Pet 2:9-10Isa 49:5-6Isa 60:9Isa 53:10-12Isa 55:5John 12:16John 17:9-10

John 12:24²⁴I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:36-38Isa 53:10-12Heb 2:9-10John 12:32-33Ps 72:16Rev 7:9-17Ps 22:22-31Ps 22:15

John 12:25²⁵The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:39Luke 9:23-24Mark 8:35Luke 17:33Matt 16:25Luke 14:26Acts 20:24Matt 19:29Rev 12:11Eccl 2:17

John 12:26²⁶If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:241 Sam 2:30Gal 1:10John 10:27John 17:241 John 5:3Rom 1:11 Thess 4:17-18Ps 91:152 Cor 5:8

John 12:27²⁷“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:23Heb 5:7Isa 38:15John 13:21Mark 14:33-36Matt 26:38-39Matt 26:42Ps 88:3Heb 2:14Isa 53:3

John 12:28²⁸Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 13:31-32Matt 26:42John 11:40-44Rev 5:9-14Isa 49:3-7Matt 17:5Matt 3:17Phil 1:6-112 Pet 1:17Eph 2:7

John 12:29²⁹The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 37:2-5Rev 14:2Rev 6:1Exod 19:16Exod 20:18Ezek 10:5Job 40:9Acts 23:8-9Rev 11:19Rev 18:1-2

John 12:30³⁰Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:422 Cor 8:9John 11:15John 5:34

John 12:31³¹Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:41 John 3:81 John 5:19John 14:30Eph 6:12Col 2:15Heb 2:14John 16:8-11Rev 20:2-31 John 4:4

John 12:32³²And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:14John 8:281 Pet 2:241 John 2:2John 1:71 Tim 2:6Gal 3:13Heb 2:9John 6:44Hos 11:4

John 12:33³³(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 18:32John 21:19

John 12:34³⁴Then the crowd responded, “We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:24-25Isa 9:7Dan 7:14Ps 110:4Dan 2:44Dan 7:272 Sam 7:13John 3:14-16Ps 89:36-37John 5:25-27

John 12:35³⁵Jesus replied, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:46John 16:161 John 1:6-7Eph 5:8John 8:12John 11:10Jer 13:16-17John 12:36John 9:4-5Isa 2:5

John 12:36³⁶While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:81 Thess 5:5John 8:59Acts 13:47-48Isa 60:1John 1:7Luke 16:81 John 2:9-111 Thess 5:8John 10:39-40

John 12:37³⁷Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 16:31John 1:11John 15:24John 11:42Matt 11:20

John 12:38³⁸so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 53:1Rom 10:16Rom 10:201 Cor 1:242 Cor 4:3-62 Cor 3:14-18Acts 13:27-29Acts 8:28-30Gal 1:16Matt 16:17

John 12:39³⁹For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:14Isa 6:9-10John 10:38John 5:44John 6:44Isa 44:18-20

John 12:40⁴⁰“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 6:10Matt 13:13-15Luke 8:10Mark 4:12Isa 57:18-19Hos 6:1Isa 29:10Acts 3:19Deut 29:4Ezek 12:2

John 12:41⁴¹Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 6:1-5Isa 6:9-10John 1:142 Cor 4:6John 1:18John 5:39Heb 1:3John 14:91 Pet 1:11Acts 10:43

John 12:42⁴²Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:7John 7:13John 9:22Matt 10:32Prov 29:25Isa 66:5John 19:38John 11:45John 12:11John 16:2

John 12:43⁴³For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 5:44Matt 23:5-7John 5:41Luke 16:152 Cor 10:181 Thess 2:6Luke 19:171 Pet 1:7-81 Sam 2:30John 12:26

John 12:44⁴⁴But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:40John 5:24John 13:20Mark 9:371 Pet 1:21John 7:28Prov 8:1Isa 55:1-3John 11:43Prov 1:20

John 12:45⁴⁵and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:9-102 Cor 4:6Col 1:15Heb 1:3John 12:41John 15:241 John 5:20

John 12:46⁴⁶I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:12Ps 36:9Isa 42:7John 9:5John 12:35-36Acts 26:18John 1:4-5John 3:19Luke 1:76-79John 1:9

John 12:47⁴⁷If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:17John 12:48John 8:15-161 Tim 1:15-161 John 4:14Luke 19:10John 5:45Matt 20:282 Pet 3:15John 8:26

John 12:48⁴⁸The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 10:16Heb 9:27-28Rom 2:162 Thess 1:8John 11:24John 3:17-20Heb 12:25Heb 10:29-31Deut 18:18-19Isa 53:3

John 12:49⁴⁹For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:10John 5:30John 8:26John 17:8Deut 18:18John 14:31John 15:15John 8:42John 3:11John 3:32

John 12:50⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 17:3John 6:681 John 5:20John 6:631 John 2:251 John 3:23-241 John 5:11-131 Tim 1:16John 20:31