17. Therefore the crowd, who were with Him when He called El‛azar out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, were bearing witness.
18. On account of this the crowd also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.
19. The Pharisees then said among themselves, “You see how you are getting nowhere at all. Look, the world has gone after Him!”
20. And there were certain Greeks among those coming up to worship at the festival.
21. These then came to Philip, who was from Bĕyth Tsaiḏa of Galil, and were asking him, saying, “Master, we wish to see יהושע.”
22. Philip came and told Andri, and in turn Andri and Philip told יהושע.
23. And יהושע answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Aḏam to be esteemed.
24. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25. “He who loves his life shall lose it, and he who hates his life in this world shall preserve it for everlasting life.
26. “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father shall value him.
27. “Now I Myself am troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this reason I came to this hour.
28. “Father, esteem Your Name.” Then a voice came from the heaven, “I have both esteemed it and shall esteem it again.”