John 12:32-34

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³² And when I’ve been lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself.”

³³ He said this in order to point to the kind of death he was going to die.

³⁴ So the crowd spoke to him again.

“We heard in the law,” they said, “that the Messiah will last forever. How can you say that the son of man must be lifted up? Who is this ‘son of man’?”