(Jesus continued) “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” John 12:25 Lord this has always been an interesting verse for me. If I love my own life and choose to do what I want to do and live for myself […]

(Jesus continued) “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” John 12:25 Lord this sounds like a hard thing to live up to. To love our life is to lose it but if we hate our life in this world we […]

(Jesus continued) “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains along; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12:24 Lord my mind races when I think of all this verse means. It has such great meaning in my life. It has been […]

Philip went and told Andrew; (that the Greeks wanted to see Jesus) Andrew went with Philip and they went to Jesus. And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. John 12:22, 23 Lord what must Your disciples have thought. They were with You and witnessed much of […]

Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” John 12:20, 21 Lord, now the Greeks wanted to see You. They had no doubt also heard about Lazarus. Thank […]

The crowd that had been with Him (Jesus) when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet Him was that they heard that He had done this sign. The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see that you can […]

And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it; as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold your king is coming, sitting on an ass’s colt!” His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of Him and had been […]

The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, (Jesus) crying, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” John 12:12, 13 Lord […]

So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death, because on account of Him (Jesus) many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. John 12:10, 11 Lord, it is interesting when we read Your word that we see things we had never seen before. I cannot remember ever seeing the […]

When the great crowd of Jews learned that He (Jesus) was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. John 12:9 Lord, there was no internet or TV to spread the word about Lazarus and yet the word spread and there was […]