Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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III.—The Last Days.
note
1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to
Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised
from the dead, was living.
2 There a supper was
given in his honour, at which Martha waited,
while Lazarus was one of those present at the table.
3 So Mary
took a pound of choice spikenard perfume of great value, and
anointed the feet of Jesus with it, and then wiped them with
her hair. The whole house was filled with the scent of the
perfume.
4 One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about
to betray Jesus, asked:
5 “Why was not this perfume sold for thirty pounds, and the
money given to poor people?”
6 He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because
he was a thief, and, being in charge of the purse, used to take
what was put in it.
7 “Let her alone,” said Jesus, “that she may keep it
till the day when my body is being prepared for burial.
8 The
poor you always have with you, but you will not always have
me.”
9 Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at
Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but
also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 The
Chief Priests, however, plotted to put Lazarus, as well as Jesus,
to death,
11 because it was owing to him that many of the Jews
had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.
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note
12 On the following day great numbers of people
who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus
was on his way to Jerusalem,
13 took palm-branches,
and went out to meet him, shouting as they went:
“‘God save Him!
Blessed is He who Comes in the name of the Lord’—
The King of Israel!” note
14 Having found a young ass, Jesus seated himself on it, in
accordance with the passage of Scripture—
15
‘Fear not, Daughter of Zion;
Behold, thy King is coming to thee,
Sitting on the foal of an ass.’ note
16 His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when
Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these
things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had
done these things for him. ⪆⪆
17 Meanwhile the people who
were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and
raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.
18 This, indeed, was why the crowd met him—because people had
heard that he had given this sign of his mission.
19 So the
Pharisees said to one another:
“You see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world
has run after him!”
note
20 Among those who were going up to worship at
the Festival were some Greeks,
21 who went to
Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, and said:
“Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
22 Philip went and told Andrew, and then together they went
and told Jesus.
23 This was his reply—
24 “The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted. In
truth I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground
and dies, it remains solitary; but, if it dies, it becomes fruitful.
25 He who loves his life loses it; while he who hates his
life in the present world shall preserve it for Immortal
Life.
26 If a man is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and
where I am, there my servant shall be also. If a man is ready to
serve me, my Father will honour him.
27 Now I am distressed
at heart, and what can I say? Father, bring me safe through
this hour—yet it was for this very reason that I came to this
hour—Father, note
28 honour thine own name.”
At this there came a voice from Heaven, which said:
“I have already honoured it, and I will honour it again.”
29 The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that
it was thundering.
Others said: “An angel has been speaking to him.”
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30 “It was not for my sake that the voice came,” said Jesus,
“but for yours.
31 Now this world is on its trial. Now the Spirit
that is ruling this world shall be driven out;
32 and I, when
I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw all men to myself.”
33 By these words he indicated what death he was destined to die.
34 “We,” replied the people, “have learnt from the Law that
the ‘Christ is to remain for ever’; how is it, then, that you
say that the Son of Man must be ‘lifted up’? Who is this
‘Son of Man’?” note
35 “Only a little while longer,” answered Jesus, “will
you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have
the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he
who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36 While you still have the Light, believe in the Light, that you
may be ‘Sons of Light.’”
After he had said this, Jesus went away, and hid himself from
them. note ⪆⪆
37 But, though Jesus had given so many signs of
his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,
in fulfilment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah,
38 where he
says—
‘Lord, who has believed our teaching?
And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed? note
39 The reason why they were unable to believe is given by Isaiah
elsewhere, in these words—
40
‘He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind,
So that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn—
And I should heal them.’ note
41 Isaiah said this, because he saw Christ's glory; and it was of
him that he spoke. note ⪆⪆
42 Yet for all this, even among the
leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus;
but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it,
for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;
43 for
they valued honour from men more than honour from God.
44 But Jesus had proclaimed:
“He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who
sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.
45
46 I have
come as a Light into the world, that no one who believes in me
should remain in the darkness.
47 When any one hears my teaching
and pays no heed to it, I am not his judge; for I came not
to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who rejects me,
and disregards my teaching, has a judge already—the very
Message which I have delivered will itself be his judge at
the Last Day.
49 For I have not delivered it on my own
authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given
me his command as to what I should say, and what message
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I should deliver.
50 And I know that Immortal Life lies in keeping
his command. Therefore, whatever I say, I say only what
the Father has taught me.”
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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