KJ3 Literal Translation
John 12
1 Jesus excuses Mary’s anointing His feet. 10 The high priests consult to kill Lazarus. 12 Christ rides triumphantly into Jerusalem.
1Therefore six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, the one having died, whom He raised from the dead.
2Then they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving. But Lazarus was one of the ones reclining with Him.
3Then taking a pound of ointment of genuine, very costly spikenard, Mary anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped off His feet with her hair . And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4Then Simon’s son, one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, the one going to give Him over, said,
5Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?
6But he said this, not that he was caring for the poor people, but that he was a thief and held the money bag and carried away the things being put in.
7Then Jesus said, Allow her, for she has kept it for the day of My burial.
8For you always have the poor people with yourselves, but you do not always have Me.
9Then a great crowd of the Jews knew that He is there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they also might see Lazarus whom He raised from the dead.
10But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,
11because through him many of the Jews went away and believed into Jesus.
12On the next day a great crowd, the one coming to the Feast, hearing that Jesus is coming to Jerusalem,
13took the branches of the palm trees and went out to a meeting with Him, and they were crying out, Hosanna! “Being blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!” Psa. 118:26
14And having found a little ass colt, Jesus sat on it, even as it is written,
15“Do not fear,” “daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes” “sitting on” “the colt of an ass.” Isa. 40:9; Zech. 9:9
16But His disciples did not know these things at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written on Him, and that they did these things to Him.
17Therefore the crowd were testifying, the ones being with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him out of dead ones.
18On account of this also the crowd met Him, because it heard Him to have done this miraculous sign..
19Therefore the Pharisees said to themselves, You see that you profit nothing. Behold, the world has gone after Him.
20And there were some Greeks among the ones going up, that they might worship at the Feast.
21Then these people came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him, saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus.
22Philip comes and says to Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
23But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
24Truly, truly, I say to you, If the grain of wheat falling into the earth does not die, it remains alone. But if it die, it bears much fruit.
25The one loving his life will lose it, and the one hating his life in this world will keep it to everlasting life.
26If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will also be. And if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
27Now My soul is agitated, and what may I say? Father, save Me out of this hour? But on account of this I came to this hour.
28Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came out of the heaven: I both glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
29Therefore the crowd, the one standing and hearing, said thunder to have occurred. Others said, An angel has spoken to Him.
30Jesus answered and said, This voice has not happened on account of Me, but on account of you.
31Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.
32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to Myself.
33But He said this, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.
34The crowd answered Him, We heard out of the Law that the Christ remains unto the age. And how do You say it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?
35Therefore Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness not overtake you. And the one walking in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36While you have the Light, believe into the Light, that you may become sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things, and going away He was hidden from them.
37But He having done so many miraculous signs before them, they did not believe into Him,
38so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, “Lord, who believed our report? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?” Isa. 53:1
39Because of this they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,
40“He has blinded their eyes” and “has hardened their heart,” “that they might not see with the eyes” and “understand with the heart,” “and turn back,” “and I should heal them.” Isa. 6:10
41Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory, and spoke about Him.
42Yet, however, even out of the rulers, many did believe into Him. But because of the Pharisees, they were not confessing, so that they not be put out of the synagogue.
43For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44But Jesus cried out and said, The one believing into Me does not believe into Me, but into the One having sent Me.
45And the one seeing Me sees the One having sent Me.
46I have come as a Light to the world, that every one who believes into Me may not remain in the darkness.
47And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
48The one who rejects Me and does not receive My words has the one judging him: the Word which I spoke, that will judge him in the last Day.
49For I did not speak from Myself, but He having sent Me, the Father, He has given Me command, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50And I know that His command is everlasting life. Then what things I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.
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