 | Peter Mazar, Robert Baker, Evelyn Kaehler - 1991 - 248 pages
...HE hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | Bruce B. Barton - 1993 - 468 pages
...honor, but for death. For through Jesus' death, he was to bring us to God. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."NRSv This pictures beautifully the necessary sacrifice of Jesus. Unless a grain of wheat is... | |
 | James Dixon Douglas - 1993 - 938 pages
...glorified. ;4Very truly. I tell you. unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remaias just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. ^Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | Richard P. McBrien - 1994 - 1348 pages
...texts. ]esus' death assumes meaning within the context of his resurrection: "Unless the grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | Carmen María Cervantes - 1995 - 290 pages
...Die in Order to Be Reborn 52 Jesus said clearly: "'Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single...but if it dies, it bears much fruit'" (John 12:24). Through his death and Resurrection, Jesus demonstrated the truth of this saying. Dying in order to... | |
 | Ben Witherington - 1995 - 430 pages
...hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal... | |
 | Walter J. Burghardt - 1995 - 186 pages
...destroys the false self in us, transforms the "I" in the fire of suffering; for "Unless the grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain," cannot produce images of itself, "but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (Jn 12:24). And as Jesus gove... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Prévost - 1996 - 76 pages
...price we must pay to enter into the dance of life. Or, as the Gospel puts it: "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single...but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24). This does not mean, however, that we should be passive before the world's evils. Jesus spoke the words... | |
 | Peter W. L. Walker - 1996 - 392 pages
...especially when some 'Greeks' request to see Jesus (12:20ff). Jesus replies: 'Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit' (12:24). As his 'hour' approaches (v. 23) Jesus sees his death in Jerusalem as being the means whereby... | |
 | David M. Rhoads - 192 pages
...of Jesus enables his own relationship with God to be possible for others: "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (12:24). Only if Jesus dies and goes to the Father can Jesus establish for believers the same relation... | |
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Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 
