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John 12:15-28 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

15. “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion! Behold, your king is coming, seated on the foal of a donkey!”

16. (His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and they did these things to him.)

17. So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.

18. Because of this also the crowd went to meet him, for they had heard that he had performed this sign.

19. So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him.”

20. Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.

21. So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

22. Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

23. And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.

24. Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

25. The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

26. 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.

27. “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? But for this reason I have come to this hour!

28. Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have both glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

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