ApostleFruitful surrender

John 12 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: John 1–21 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 12

Anointing, the King’s entry, and the hour of glory

Verse 12:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

So six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The visit is six days before Passover; Lazarus’ resurrection identifies the Bethany setting. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

They made a supper for Him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Martha serves and Lazarus reclines with Jesus; the supper’s hosts are not named. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:3

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then Mary took a litra of costly perfume of genuine nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: λίτρα is the ancient Roman-pound measure, retained as litra without equating it with a modern pound. πιστική is rendered genuine; its exact force is debated. The source names the feet and the house-filling fragrance. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:4

Greek–English Saints Priority

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was about to hand Him over, said,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Judas’ identity as disciple is paired with the narrator’s anticipation of betrayal. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:5

Greek–English Saints Priority

“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The stated price is three hundred denarii; the translation does not replace it with an estimated annual income. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:6

Greek–English Saints Priority

He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to carry off what was put into it.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: βαστάζω can mean carry or carry away. ‘Carry off’ reads it in light of the explicit statement that Judas was a thief; the money box and deposited funds remain distinct. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:7

Greek–English Saints Priority

So Jesus said, “Leave her, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The base reads ἵνα … τηρήσῃ, ‘so that she may keep,’ not a past-tense ‘she has kept.’ The relation to the already narrated anointing is difficult and remains open rather than being harmonized through a tense change. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:8

Greek–English Saints Priority

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The contrast concerns continuing access to the poor and Jesus’ impending absence. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:9

Greek–English Saints Priority

A great crowd of the Jews learned that He was there, and they came not because of Jesus alone, but also to see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The crowd seeks both Jesus and the raised Lazarus, distinguishing its two stated interests. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Textual: NA28 reads [ὁ] ὄχλος πολὺς (SBLGNT ὄχλος πολὺς); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “The great crowd of the Jews” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 12:10

Greek–English Saints Priority

But the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The plot explicitly expands to Lazarus as well as Jesus. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:11

Greek–English Saints Priority

because on his account many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source says they were going away and believing; it does not expressly name the group or place from which they withdrew. Reception: A050 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:12

Greek–English Saints Priority

The next day, the great crowd that had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The next-day setting introduces the festival crowd whose action continues in 12:13. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:13

Greek–English Saints Priority

took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Hosanna is retained as the transliterated acclamation. καί before the royal title is rendered appositionally as ‘even.’ Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:14

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, just as it is written,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus finds and rides the young donkey; the following citation supplies the scriptural relation. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:15

Greek–English Saints Priority

“Do not fear, daughter Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting upon a donkey’s colt.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The citation names a donkey’s colt. The translation does not add a second mount. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:16

Greek–English Saints Priority

His disciples did not understand these things at first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The narrator makes later glorification the point at which the disciples remember and understand; no earlier complete comprehension is supplied. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:17

Greek–English Saints Priority

So the crowd that was with Him when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The witnesses are specifically those present for Lazarus’ summons and resurrection. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:18

Greek–English Saints Priority

For this reason the crowd also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The crowd’s meeting Jesus is explained by hearing of that sign. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:19

Greek–English Saints Priority

So the Pharisees said among themselves, “You see that you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after Him.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: “The world” is the Pharisees’ sweeping description of Jesus’ following in their private complaint. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:20

Greek–English Saints Priority

Now there were some Greeks among those going up to worship at the feast.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The visitors are called Greeks and come to worship. No unexpressed category of conversion status or nationality within the Greek-speaking world is added. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:21

Greek–English Saints Priority

These approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The Greeks address Philip as Sir; the same κύριε vocabulary has an ordinary human addressee here. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:22

Greek–English Saints Priority

Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The request reaches Jesus through Philip and Andrew together. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The hour now “has come,” contrasting with earlier declarations that it had not yet come. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:24

Greek–English Saints Priority

Amen, amen, I tell you: unless the grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The single grain’s death and abundant fruit constitute an agricultural analogy, without an added explanation in this verse. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:25

Greek–English Saints Priority

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source has present ‘loses’ and future ‘will keep.’ The strong verb hates is retained, with ψυχή rendered life in contrast to eternal ζωή. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:26

Greek–English Saints Priority

If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: διάκονος is servant or minister here, not an explicit legal description of slavery. Reception: A051 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:27

Greek–English Saints Priority

Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour. Yet for this reason I came to this hour.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The source punctuates the request to the Father as a statement after ‘what shall I say?’ This rendering preserves it as spoken prayer. Reading it as a proposed question is also possible; Jesus’ reason for coming to the hour remains explicit. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:28

Greek–English Saints Priority

Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I both glorified it and will glorify it again.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The heavenly answer affirms both previous and future glorification of the Father’s name. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:29

Greek–English Saints Priority

So the crowd standing there and hearing it said that thunder had occurred. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Thunder and angelic speech are alternative interpretations supplied by the crowd. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:30

Greek–English Saints Priority

Jesus answered, “This voice has come not for My sake, but for yours.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Jesus states that the voice’s purpose concerns the hearers rather than Himself. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:31

Greek–English Saints Priority

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The doubled “now” links world-judgment with the expulsion of its ruler. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:32

Greek–English Saints Priority

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to Myself.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: πάντας is masculine plural, rendered all people, not neuter all things. The lifting up is interpreted by the narrator in verse thirty-three as the manner of death. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:33

Greek–English Saints Priority

He said this to signify by what kind of death He was about to die.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The narrator explicitly explains lifting up as indicating the manner of Jesus’ death. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:34

Greek–English Saints Priority

So the crowd answered Him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How do You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The crowd contrasts the Christ’s expected permanence with the Son of Man’s lifting up. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:35

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then Jesus said to them, “For a little time longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you. The one walking in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The remaining time with the Light is short; darkness is personified as capable of overtaking. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:36

Greek–English Saints Priority

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus spoke these things, and went away and hid Himself from them.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Believing in the Light is directed toward becoming sons of light; Jesus then withdraws. Reception: A052 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:37

Greek–English Saints Priority

Though He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The narrator juxtaposes numerous signs with persistent unbelief before citing Isaiah. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:38

Greek–English Saints Priority

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: “Lord, who believed our report? And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: ἀκοή can mean hearing or what is heard, here report or proclamation. ‘Arm of the Lord’ retains the source’s bodily image. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:39

Greek–English Saints Priority

For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The inability to believe is stated explicitly and introduces a second Isaiah citation. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:40

Greek–English Saints Priority

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they may not see with the eyes and understand with the heart and turn—and I would heal them.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The verbs for blinding and hardening have an unexpressed singular subject, represented by He. The final Greek form is future ἰάσομαι, ‘I will heal’; ‘I would heal’ expresses its conditional relation within the negative purpose sequence in English. The scope of that sequence and the citation’s form require further review. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:41

Greek–English Saints Priority

Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke concerning Him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The base has ‘because he saw His glory,’ ὅτι, not a temporal when. The pronoun is read in the narrative as referring to Jesus. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:42

Greek–English Saints Priority

Nevertheless, many even from the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The narrator explicitly records many rulers’ belief, while distinguishing it from public confession. Their exclusion concern is stated without reconstructing a later universal policy. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:43

Greek–English Saints Priority

for they loved the glory of people more than the glory of God.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: δόξα is repeated, glory from people and glory from God; it is not replaced by unrelated terms. Reception: A053 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:44

Greek–English Saints Priority

And Jesus cried out and said, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in the One who sent Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Belief in Jesus is directed through Him to His Sender; the contrast is part of His own proclamation. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:45

Greek–English Saints Priority

And the one who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: Beholding Jesus and beholding His Sender are connected by parallel wording. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:46

Greek–English Saints Priority

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in the darkness.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The purpose of Jesus’ coming as Light is that believers cease remaining in darkness. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:47

Greek–English Saints Priority

And if anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The condition concerns hearing and failing to keep the words, not a substituted failure to believe. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:48

Greek–English Saints Priority

The one who rejects Me and does not receive My words has one who judges him: the word that I spoke will judge him on the last day.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The word already spoken is identified as the judge on the last day. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:49

Greek–English Saints Priority

Because I have not spoken from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has Himself given Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The Father’s command concerns both what to say and what to speak; the near repetition is retained. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).

Verse 12:50

Greek–English Saints Priority

And I know that His command is eternal life. So the things I speak, just as the Father has told Me, thus I speak.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Textual: The Father’s command is called eternal life, and Jesus’ speech conforms to that command. Reception: A054 (see the passage reception register).