Outline
I. Prologue: The Word Became Flesh (1:1-18)
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
John 12 NLT
1 Six days before the Passover celebration
began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from
the dead.
2 A dinner was prepared in Jesus’ honor.
Martha served, and Lazarus was among those who ate with him.
3 Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar of
expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet with
it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the
fragrance.
4 But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who
would soon betray him, said,
5 “That perfume was worth a year’s wages.
It should have been sold and the money given to the poor.”
6 Not that he cared for the poor—he was a
thief, and since he was in charge of the disciples’ money, he often stole some
for himself.
7 Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. She did
this in preparation for my burial.
8 You will always have the poor among you,
but you will not always have me.”
9 When all the people heard of Jesus’
arrival, they flocked to see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had
raised from the dead.
10 Then the leading priests decided to kill
Lazarus, too,
11 for it was because of him that many of
the people had deserted them and believed in Jesus.
12 The next day, the news that Jesus was on
the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover
visitors
13 took palm branches and went down the
road to meet him. They shouted, “Praise God! Blessings on the one who comes in
the name of the LORD ! Hail to the King of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and rode on
it, fulfilling the prophecy that said:
15 “Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem.
Look, your King is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”
16 His disciples didn’t understand at the
time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into his
glory, they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had
been written about him.
17Many in the crowd had seen Jesus call Lazarus
from the tomb, raising him from the dead, and they were telling others about
it.
18 That was the reason so many went out to
meet him—because they had heard about this miraculous sign.
19 Then the Pharisees said to each other,
“There’s nothing we can do. Look, everyone has gone after him!”
20 Some Greeks who had come to Jerusalem
for the Passover celebration
21 paid a visit to Philip, who was from
Bethsaida in Galilee. They said, “Sir, we want to meet Jesus.”
22Philip told Andrew about it, and they went
together to ask Jesus.
23 Jesus replied, “Now the time has come
for the Son of Man to enter into his glory.
24I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat
is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce
many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.
25 Those who love their life in this world
will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it
for eternity.
26Anyone who wants to serve me must follow me,
because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who
serves me.
27 “Now my soul is deeply troubled. Should
I pray, ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But this is the very reason I
came!
28 Father, bring glory to your name.” Then
a voice spoke from heaven, saying, “I have already brought glory to my name,
and I will do so again.”
29 When the crowd heard the voice, some
thought it was thunder, while others declared an angel had spoken to him.
30 Then Jesus told them, “The voice was for
your benefit, not mine.
31 The time for judging this world has
come, when Satan, the ruler of this world, will be cast out.
32 And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I will draw everyone to myself.”
33 He said this to indicate how he was
going to die.
34 The crowd responded, “We understood from
Scripture that the Messiah would live forever. How can you say the Son of Man
will die? Just who is this Son of Man, anyway?”
35 Jesus replied, “My light will shine for
you just a little longer. Walk in the light while you can, so the darkness will
not overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness cannot see where they are
going.
36 Put your trust in the light while there
is still time; then you will become children of the light.” After saying these
things, Jesus went away and was hidden from them.
37 But despite all the miraculous signs
Jesus had done, most of the people still did not believe in him.
38 This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet
had predicted: “ LORD, who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD
revealed his powerful arm?”
39 But the people couldn’t believe, for as
Isaiah also said,
40 “The Lord has blinded their eyes and
hardened their hearts— so that their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot
understand, and they cannot turn to me and have me heal them.”
41 Isaiah was referring to Jesus when he
said this, because he saw the future and spoke of the Messiah’s glory.
42 Many people did believe in him, however,
including some of the Jewish leaders. But they wouldn’t admit it for fear that
the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue.
43 For they loved human praise more than
the praise of God.
44 Jesus shouted to the crowds, “If you
trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.
45 For when you see me, you are seeing the
one who sent me.
46 I have come as a light to shine in this
dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the
dark.
47 I will not judge those who hear me but
don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it.
48 But all who reject me and my message
will be judged on the day of judgment by the truth I have spoken.
49 I don’t speak on my own authority. The
Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it.
50 And I know his commands lead to eternal
life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.”
