John 12:32 - New Revised Standard Version And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I, if and when I am lifted up from the earth [on the cross], will draw and attract all men [Gentiles as well as Jews] to Myself. American Standard Version (1901) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself. Common English Bible When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to me.” ( Catholic Public Domain Version And when I have been lifted up from the earth, I will draw all things to myself." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself. |
Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.
Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
On that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples; the nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious.
he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.
So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
(This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.)
and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day.
So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—
who gave himself a ransom for all —this was attested at the right time.
but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;