In this week's edition of "There's more in the Gospel than meets the Eye," Jill Bevilacqua
and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us reflections and readings for the Fifth Sunday of
Lent. Listen: GospelJn
12:20-33
Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came
to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we would like
to see Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and
told Jesus. Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground
and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much
fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will
preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I
am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.
"I
am troubled now. Yet what should I say? 'Father, save me from this hour?' But
it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name." Then
a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it and will glorify it again." The
crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, "An angel has spoken
to him." Jesus answered and said, "This voice did not come for my sake but for
yours. Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world
will be driven out. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone
to myself." He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.