John Chapter 12 verse 30 Holy Bible
Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes.
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Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.
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Jesus answered and said, Not on my account has this voice come, but on yours.
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Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
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Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
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Jesus answered and said, `Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Jesus answered to the confused murmur of remark, and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes. This surely establishes, on the authority of Jesus, the objective character of the revelation. "It was necessary that you should hear and know and feel who and what I am." Ever thinking of others, living in them, he thinks of their spiritual advantage now. Thoma says that whereas the whole scene corresponds with the synoptic account of Gethsemane, it is idealized on the basis of the Johannine idea of the Divine Lamb and the Logos in flesh, and that Jesus here shows that he needed no strengthening, as the objective revelation was entirely for the sake of others, and not for his own consolation. This ingenious criticism of Thoma rests on the unjustifiable hypothesis that the scene before us did not precede the agony of the garden, but was a bare invention of the evangelist, because the latter ruled that Gethsemane needed "idealization." Why should not the two scenes be equally true, revealing the fundamental identity of character and personality, the one, moreover, preparing for the other? (See notes on John 19.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.--More exactly, not for My sake did this voice come, but for your sakes. These words are an answer to the thoughts, spoken and unspoken, of the multitude. Jesus Himself knew that the Father heareth Him always, but this answer is a sign to others. (Comp. John 11:41-42.) He calls it a voice in answer to those who said it thundered, or that an angel had spoken. There was that, then, which seemed to them but the thunder's sound or an angel's word, which, coming in answer to His prayer and after His teaching. should have been, to ears ready to hear and minds willing to receive, the voice of God witnessing to the mission of His Son.
