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    "language": "en",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 12
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 12,
    "bookSlug": "john",
    "bookCode": "JHN",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JHN-12:1",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.1",
        "text": "Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JHN-12:2",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.2",
        "text": "So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JHN-12:3",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.3",
        "text": "Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JHN-12:4",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.4",
        "text": "But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JHN-12:5",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.5",
        "text": "Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JHN-12:6",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.6",
        "text": "Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JHN-12:7",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.7",
        "text": "Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JHN-12:8",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.8",
        "text": "For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JHN-12:9",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.9",
        "text": "The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus` sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JHN-12:10",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.10",
        "text": "But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JHN-12:11",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.11",
        "text": "because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JHN-12:12",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.12",
        "text": "On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JHN-12:13",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.13",
        "text": "took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JHN-12:14",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.14",
        "text": "And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JHN-12:15",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.15",
        "text": "Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass`s colt."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JHN-12:16",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.16",
        "text": "These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JHN-12:17",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.17",
        "text": "The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JHN-12:18",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.18",
        "text": "For this cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he had done this sign."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JHN-12:19",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.19",
        "text": "The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold how ye prevail nothing: lo, the world is gone after him."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JHN-12:20",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.20",
        "text": "Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JHN-12:21",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.21",
        "text": "these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JHN-12:22",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.22",
        "text": "Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and Philip, and they tell Jesus."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JHN-12:23",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.23",
        "text": "And Jesus answereth them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JHN-12:24",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.24",
        "text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JHN-12:25",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.25",
        "text": "He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JHN-12:26",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.26",
        "text": "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JHN-12:27",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.27",
        "text": "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JHN-12:28",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.28",
        "text": "Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, [saying], I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JHN-12:29",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.29",
        "text": "The multitude therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it had thundered: others said, An angel hath spoken to him."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JHN-12:30",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.30",
        "text": "Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JHN-12:31",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.31",
        "text": "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JHN-12:32",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.32",
        "text": "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JHN-12:33",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.33",
        "text": "But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JHN-12:34",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.34",
        "text": "The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JHN-12:35",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.35",
        "text": "Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JHN-12:36",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.36",
        "text": "While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JHN-12:37",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.37",
        "text": "But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him:"
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JHN-12:38",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.38",
        "text": "that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JHN-12:39",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.39",
        "text": "For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again,"
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "JHN-12:40",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.40",
        "text": "He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their       heart, And should turn, And I should heal them."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "JHN-12:41",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.41",
        "text": "These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "JHN-12:42",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.42",
        "text": "Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], lest they should be put out of the synagogue:"
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "JHN-12:43",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.43",
        "text": "for they loved the glory [that is] of men more than the glory [that is] of God."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "JHN-12:44",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.44",
        "text": "And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "JHN-12:45",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.45",
        "text": "And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "JHN-12:46",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.46",
        "text": "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "JHN-12:47",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.47",
        "text": "And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "JHN-12:48",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.48",
        "text": "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "JHN-12:49",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.49",
        "text": "For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "JHN-12:50",
        "verseRef": "JHN.12.50",
        "text": "And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak."
      }
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