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Scott's Reference Library
John 12:20 through John 12:33 (NIV)
20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast.
21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,”
they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew
and Philip in turn told Jesus.
23Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24I tell
you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains
only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25The man who loves
his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep
it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my
servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27“Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this
hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28Father, glorify
your name!”
Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
29The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an
angel had spoken to him.
30Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31Now is the time for
judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32But
I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” 33He said
this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 20-26
In attendance upon holy ordinances, particularly the gospel passover, the great
desire of our souls should be to see Jesus; to see him as ours, to keep up
communion with him, and derive grace from him. The calling of the Gentiles
magnified the Redeemer. A corn of wheat yields no increase unless it is cast
into the ground. Thus Christ might have possessed his heavenly glory alone,
without becoming man. Or, after he had taken man’s nature, he might have entered
heaven alone, by his own perfect righteousness, without suffering or death; but
then no sinner of the human race could have been saved. The salvation of souls
hitherto, and henceforward to the end of time, is owing to the dying of this
Corn of wheat. Let us search whether Christ be in us the hope of glory; let us
beg him to make us indifferent to the trifling concerns of this life, that we
may serve the Lord Jesus with a willing mind, and follow his holy example.
VERSES 27-33
The sin of our souls was the troubled of Christ’s soul, when he undertook to
redeem and save us, and to make his soul an offering for our sin. Christ was
willing to suffer, yet prayed to be saved from suffering. Prayer against trouble
may well agree with patience under it, and submission to the will of God in it.
Our Lord Jesus undertook to satisfy God’s injured honour, and he did it by
humbling himself. The voice of the Father from heaven, which had declared him to
be his beloved Son, at his baptism, and when he was transfigured, was heard
proclaiming that He had both glorified his name, and would glorify it. Christ,
reconciling the world to God by the merit of his death, broke the power of
death, and cast out Satan as a destroyer. Christ, bringing the world to God by
the doctrine of his cross, broke the power of sin, and cast out Satan as a
deceiver. The soul that was at a distance from Christ, is brought to love him
and trust him. Jesus was now going to heaven, and he would draw men’s hearts to
him thither. There is power in the death of Christ to draw souls to him. We have
heard from the gospel that which exalts free grace, and we have heard also that
which enjoins duty; we must from the heart embrace both, and not separate them.