24. Amen, amen I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.
25. He who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it forever.
26. If any man serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there also will My servant be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
27. “Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But it was for this reason I came to this hour.
28. Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came out of heaven, “I have glorified it, and again I will glorify it!”
29. Therefore the crowd that was standing there and heard it was saying that it had thundered. Others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.”
30. Yeshua responded, “This voice hasn’t come for My sake, but for yours.
31. Now is the judgment of this world! Now the prince of this world will be driven out!
32. And as I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to Myself.”
33. He said this to show the kind of death He was about to die.
34. The crowd answered Him, “We’ve heard from Scripture that the Messiah remains forever. How can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
35. Therefore Yeshua said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
36. While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Yeshua spoke these things, then left and hid Himself from them.
37. But even though He had performed so many signs before them, they weren’t trusting in Him.
38. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said, “Adonai, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of Adonai been revealed?”
39. For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah also said,