24. Most certainly I tell 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. He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
26. If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27. “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
28. Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
29. The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
30. Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.
31. Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
32. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
33. But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
34. The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
35. Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
36. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
37. But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
38. that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39. For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
40. “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”