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,
40. “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they might not see with their eyes nor understand with their hearts and turn back, and I would heal them.”
41. Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke of Him.
42. Nevertheless many, even among the leaders, put their trust in Him. But because of the Pharisees, they were not confessing Yeshua, so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue;
43. for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44. Yeshua cried out, “Whoever puts trust in Me believes not in Me but in the One who sent Me!