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"Now my soul is troubled,^(af) and what shall I say? ‘Father,^(ag) save me from this hour'?^(ah) No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.

Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came from heaven,^(ai) "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again."

The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

Jesus said, "This voice was for your benefit,^(aj) not mine.

Now is the time for judgment on this world;^(ak) now the prince of this world^(al) will be driven out.

And I, when I am lifted up^[g] from the earth,^(am) will draw all people to myself."^(an)

He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.^(ao)

The crowd spoke up, "We have heard from the Law^(ap) that the Messiah will remain forever,^(aq) so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man^(ar) must be lifted up' ?^(as) Who is this ‘Son of Man'?"

Then Jesus told them, "You are going to have the light^(at) just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light,^(au) before darkness overtakes you.^(av) Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.

Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light."^(aw) When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.^(ax)

Even after Jesus had performed so many signs^(ay) in their presence, they still would not believe in him.

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: "Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"^[h](az)

For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them."^[i](ba)

Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory^(bb) and spoke about him.^(bc)

Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.^(bd) But because of the Pharisees^(be) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;^(bf)

for they loved human praise^(bg) more than praise from God.^(bh)

Then Jesus cried out, "Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^(bi)

The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^(bj)

I have come into the world as a light,^(bk) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

"If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.^(bl)

There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them^(bm) at the last day.

For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me^(bn) to say all that I have spoken.

I know that his command leads to eternal life.^(bo) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say."^(bp)