 | 2011 - 172 pages
...even say a pyrrhic victory, one that costs nothing less than life itself: "[U]nless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit," declares Jesus ( John 12:24-25; cf. Mark 8:35). The Polarity of Wisdom (7:5-7) Verses 5-7 further underscore... | |
 | Katherine Marie Dyckman, Mary Garvin, Elizabeth Liebert - 2001 - 390 pages
...Week. These passages include the story of the grain of wheat: "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), the Suffering Servant Songs from Isaiah, the predictions of the cross at the transfiguration, or situations... | |
 | Thomas W. Currie - 2001 - 134 pages
...the truth in love and redeems the world through the death of his own Son. "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). Such a telling of the truth is the way God loves this world, the way Jesus draws all to himself (John... | |
 | Francis J. Moloney - 2001 - 316 pages
...advent of the hour of his glorification (12:23l, but he explains further: "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" (12:24J, and then, "Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.... | |
 | Demetrius Dumm - 2001 - 204 pages
...concerning the meaning of his life on this earth: "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" (12:24). The single grain of wheat, symbolizing any individual human being, is presumed to have an... | |
 | William George Storey - 2001 - 356 pages
...The 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... | |
 | Natalie Smith - 2002 - 180 pages
...a slave" then humbled himself still further by his death on the cross, for "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 the dynamics of asceticism, Christ reversed the curse handed down to Adam and Eve, the children... | |
 | Sofia Cavalletti - 2002 - 196 pages
...difficult aspect of reality. And, again, it is in the form of the parable. "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). Jesus says these words close to the time of his own Passover, when he would bear in himself a basic... | |
 | John Piper - 2002 - 275 pages
...destructive conflict was turned into constructive conflict to everyone's advantage. "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." 30 Creative action, contrary to appearances, seems to follow this way of bringing order out of chaos.... | |
 | Paul J. Achtemeier, A. Andrew Das, Frank J. Matera - 2002 - 326 pages
...the advent of the hour of his glorification (12:23) but to explain further, "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" (v. 24). Jesus elaborates: "Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be... | |
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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. 
