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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 12:27-33
  by J.C. Ryle
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"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father,
deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come
to this hour. Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven,
"I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." The crowd that stood
there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that
an angel had spoken to him. Jesus said, "This voice has not come for my
benefit but for yours. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler
of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the
earth, will draw all people to myself." (Now he said this to indicate
clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

These verses show us what Peter meant, when he said, "There are some
things hard to be understood" in Scripture. (2 Pet. 3:16.) There are
depths here which we have no line to fathom thoroughly. This need not
surprise us, or shake our faith. The Bible would not be a book "given by
inspiration of God," if it did not contain many things which pass man\

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