The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever.† How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 12:34 in context
John 12:31–37
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Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
32
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
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But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
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The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever.† How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
35
Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
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While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
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But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
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- Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; See Isaiah 53:8
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