The Life of Jesus

“Daughter of Tziyon, don’t be afraid! Look! your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

His talmidim did not understand this at first; but after Yeshua had been glorified, then they remembered that the Tanakh said this about him, and that they had done this for him.

The group that had been with him when he called El‘azar out of the tomb and raised him from the dead had been telling about it.

It was because of this too that the crowd came out to meet him — they had heard that he had performed this miracle.

The P’rushim said to each other, “Look, you’re getting nowhere! Why, the whole world has gone after him!”

Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greek-speaking Jews.

They approached Philip, the one from Beit-Tzaidah in the Galil, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Yeshua.”

Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Yeshua.

Yeshua gave them this answer: “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain; but if it dies, it produces a big harvest.

He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!

If someone is serving me, let him follow me; wherever I am, my servant will be there too. My Father will honor anyone who serves me.

“Now I am in turmoil. What can I say — ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour. I will say this:

‘Father, glorify your name!’” At this a bat-kol came out of heaven, “I have glorified it before, and I will glorify it again!”

The crowd standing there and hearing it said that it had thundered; others said, “An angel spoke to him.”

Yeshua answered, “This bat-kol did not come for my sake but for yours.

Now is the time for this world to be judged, now the ruler of this world will be expelled.

As for me, when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”

He said this to indicate what kind of death he would die.

The crowd answered, “We have learned from the Torah that the Messiah remains forever. How is it that you say the Son of Man has to be ‘lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

Yeshua said to them, “The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, or the dark will overtake you; he who walks in the dark doesn’t know where he’s going.

While you have the light, put your trust in the light, so that you may become people of light.” Yeshua said these things, then went off and kept himself hidden from them.

Even though he had performed so many miracles in their presence, they still did not put their trust in him,

in order that what Yesha‘yahu the prophet had said might be fulfilled, “Adonai, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of Adonai been revealed?”

The reason they could not believe was — as Yesha‘yahu said elsewhere —