24. I 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.
25. The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
26. If 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.
27. “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.
28. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
29. The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.
30. Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.