NARRATOR: Among those who went up to Jerusalem for the Passover feast were some Greeks. They approached Philip, Jesus’ disciple from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made a request.
GREEKS: Sir, we want to see Jesus.
NARRATOR: Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip told Jesus about the request.
NARRATOR: Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip told Jesus about the request.
JESUS: The hour has come when the Son of Man will be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it will bear much fruit.
ALL: Those who love their lives will lose them. Those who hate their lives in this world will keep them to life eternal.
JESUS: If people want to serve me, let them follow me. Where I am, there also my servants will be. Those who serve me, the Father will honor. Now, my soul is troubled, yet what should I say — Father, save me from this hour? I have come for this hour: Father, glorify your name.
NARRATOR: Then a voice came from the sky.
VOICE: I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
NARRATOR: The crowd standing around heard the voice and thought they heard thunder. Others thought an angel had spoken to Jesus.
JESUS: This voice has not spoken for my sake but for yours. Now is the judgment of this world. Now will the ruler of this world be thrown out. I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.
NARRATOR: Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.
John 12.20-33