John 12:27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine.
31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.
32 And I, when I am lifted up[a] from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
After the first two seeming vulnerable & powerless people that Jesus plainly tells that He is the Messiah, this next one seems unlikely, but a remarkable narrative reveals this remarkable Messiah revealing Himself again, this time to one of the most powerful men mentioned in the Bible…