John 12:1

THEN JESUS, SIX DAYS BEFORE THE PASSOVER, CAME TO BETHANY, WHERE LAZARUS WAS WHICH HAD BEEN DEAD, WHOM HE RAISED FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:3

THEN TOOK MARY POUND OF OINTMENT OF SPIKENARD, VERY COSTLY, AND ANOINTED THE FEET OF JESUS, AND WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER HAIR; AND THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH THE ODOR OF THE OINTMENT. See Mark 14:3. The evangelist marks the introduction to the great Passion of the Lord. It was six days before the fest... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:6

THIS HE SAID, NOT THAT HE CARED FOR THE POOR, BUT BECAUSE HE WAS A THIEF, AND HAD THE BAG, AND BARE WHAT WAS PUT THEREIN.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:8

FOR THE POOR ALWAYS YE HAVE WITH YOU; BUT ME YE HAVE NOT ALWAYS. When Mary gave the wonderful evidence of her devotion to the Lord, all the disciples were more or less taken aback, Matthew 26:8. Their frugal manner of living immediately scented useless extravagance. But there was one in their midst,... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:9

MUCH PEOPLE OF THE JEWS THEREFORE KNEW THAT HE WAS THERE; AND THEY CAME NOT FOR JESUS' SAKE ONLY, BUT THAT THEY MIGHT SEE LAZARUS ALSO, WHOM HE HAD RAISED FROM THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:11

BECAUSE THAT BY REASON OF HIM MANY OF THE JEWS WENT AWAY AND BELIEVED ON JESUS. In the course of the same evening, while Jesus was still in Bethany, many Jews came out from Jerusalem. The news of His coming had traveled ahead of Him, after the usual manner of such reports. But it was not only the in... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:13

TOOK BRANCHES OF PALM-TREES, AND WENT FORTH TO MEET HIM, AND CRIED, HOSANNA! BLESSED IS THE KING OF ISRAEL THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:16

THESE THINGS UNDERSTOOD NOT HIS DISCIPLES AT THE FIRST; BUT WHEN JESUS WAS GLORIFIED, THEN REMEMBERED THEY THAT THESE THINGS WERE WRITTEN OF HIM, AND THAT THEY HAD DONE THESE THINGS UNTO HIM. That Jesus had come as far as Bethany was now generally known in Jerusalem, and when He therefore set out fo... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:17

THE PEOPLE THEREFORE THAT WAS WITH HIM WHEN HE CALLED LAZARUS OUT OF HIS GRAVE, AND RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, BARE RECORD.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:19

THE PHARISEES THEREFORE SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, PERCEIVE YE HOW YE PREVAIL NOTHING? BEHOLD, THE WORLD IS GONE AFTER HIM. The ovation given to Jesus on the day of His entry into Jerusalem would probably never have reached such proportions, if it had not been for the fact that the witnesses of the rais... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:21

THE SAME CAME THEREFORE TO PHILIP, WHICH WAS OF BETHSAIDA OF GALILEE, AND DESIRED HIM, SAYING, SIR, WE WOULD SEE JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:22

PHILIP COMETH AND TELLETH ANDREW; AND AGAIN ANDREW AND PHILIP TELL JESUS. Certain Greeks there were among the crowds that came up to worship at the feast. They may have been men living in the Decapolis or in Galilee, men of pure Greek extraction, perhaps not even proselytes of the gate; they were he... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:24

VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT A CORN OF WHEAT FALL INTO THE GROUND AND DIE, IT ABIDETH ALONE; BUT IF IT DIE, IT BRINGETH FORTH MUCH FRUIT.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:25

HE THAT LOVETH HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT; AND HE THAT HATETH HIS LIFE IN THIS WORLD SHALL KEEP IT UNTO LIFE ETERNAL.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:26

IF ANY MAN SERVE ME, LET HIM FOLLOW ME; AND WHERE I AM, THERE SHALL ALSO MY SERVANT BE. IF ANY MAN SERVE ME, HIM WILL MY FATHER HONOR. Jesus was deeply moved by the request of the Greeks to become acquainted with Him, to know the Savior. It showed Him that the hour, the time, had come when He was to... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:27

NOW IS MY SOUL TROUBLED; AND WHAT SHALL I SAY? FATHER, SAVE ME FROM THIS HOUR; BUT FOR THIS CAUSE CAME I UNTO THIS HOUR.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:28

FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME. THEN CAME THERE A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, I HAVE BOTH GLORIFIED IT, AND WILL GLORIFY IT AGAIN.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:33

THIS HE SAID, SIGNIFYING WHAT DEATH HE SHOULD DIE. The thought of the coming ordeal, in a way, filled the soul of Christ with dread, He was deeply moved and agitated at the prospect. He felt something of the dread and fear of death. For Jesus was true man, whose flesh and blood shrank from the idea... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:34

THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM, WE HAVE HEARD OUT OF THE LAW THAT CHRIST ABIDETH FOREVER; AND HOW SAYEST THOU, THE SON OF MAN MUST BE LIFTED UP? WHO IS THIS SON OF MAN?... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:35

THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, YET A LITTLE WHILE IS THE LIGHT WITH YOU. WALK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT, LEST DARKNESS COME UPON YOU; FOR HE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:36

WHILE YE HAVE LIGHT, BELIEVE IN THE LIGHT, THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. THESE THINGS SPAKE JESUS, AND DEPARTED, AND DID HIDE HIMSELF FROM THEM. For once the people understood at least a part of the message which Jesus tried to convey to them; they comprehended that He was referring to His d... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:38

THAT THE SAYING OF ESAIAS THE PROPHET MIGHT BE FULFILLED, WHICH HE SPAKE, LORD, WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT, AND TO WHOM HATH THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:40

HE HATH BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HARDENED THEIR HEART, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, NOR UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:41

THESE THINGS SAID ESAIAS WHEN HE SAW HIS GLORY AND SPAKE OF HIM. The results of Christ's entire ministry, on the whole, had been very discouraging. Neither His words nor His miracles had had the desired result. And in this, as the evangelist here points out, the judgment of God upon unbelief was car... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:42

NEVERTHELESS, AMONG THE CHIEF RULERS ALSO MANY BELIEVED ON HIM, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PHARISEES THEY DID NOT CONFESS HIM, LEST THEY SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE;... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:47

AND IF ANY MAN HEAR MY WORDS AND BELIEVE NOT, I JUDGE HIM NOT; FOR I CAME NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:48

HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM; THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:49

FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF; BUT THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME, HE GAVE ME A COMMANDMENT WHAT I SHOULD SAY AND WHAT I SHOULD SPEAK.... [ Continue Reading ]

John 12:50

AND I KNOW THAT HIS COMMANDMENT IS LIFE EVERLASTING; WHATSOEVER I SPEAK, THEREFORE, EVEN AS THE FATHER SAID UNTO ME, SO I SPEAK. In the form of a parenthesis the evangelist records a fact concerning some of the rulers of the Jews, members of the great council, the Sanhedrin. A few of these had gaine... [ Continue Reading ]

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