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19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the whole world[a] has gone after him.”(A)

The Coming of Jesus’ Hour.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:19 The whole world: the sense is that everyone is following Jesus, but John has an ironic play on world; he alludes to the universality of salvation (Jn 3:17; 4:42).
  2. 12:20–36 This announcement of glorification by death is an illustration of “the whole world” (Jn 12:19) going after him.