John 12:30
New International Version
Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine.

New Living Translation
Then Jesus told them, “The voice was for your benefit, not mine.

English Standard Version
Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine.

Berean Standard Bible
In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.

Berean Literal Bible
Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come because of Me but because of you.

King James Bible
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

New King James Version
Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.

New American Standard Bible
Jesus responded and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for yours.

NASB 1995
Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.

NASB 1977
Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sake.

Amplified Bible
Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.

Christian Standard Bible
Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for me, but for you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for Me, but for you.

American Standard Version
Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua answered and said to them, “This voice was not for my benefit, but for your benefit.”

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus told the crowd, "That voice spoke to help you, not me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered, and said: This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

English Revised Version
Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus replied, "That voice wasn't for my benefit but for yours.

Good News Translation
But Jesus said to them, "It was not for my sake that this voice spoke, but for yours.

International Standard Version
Jesus replied, "This voice is for your benefit, not for mine.

Literal Standard Version
Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come because of Me, but because of you;

Majority Standard Bible
In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.

New American Bible
Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.

NET Bible
Jesus said, "This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.

New Heart English Bible
Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

Weymouth New Testament
"It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came, but for your sakes.

World English Bible
Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said, 'Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you;

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Context
Jesus Predicts His Death
29The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him. 30In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours. 31Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.…

Cross References
John 11:42
I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me."

John 12:31
Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.


Treasury of Scripture

Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

but.

John 5:34
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

John 11:15,42
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him…

2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

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John 12
1. Jesus excuses Mary anointing his feet.
9. The people flock to see Lazarus.
10. The chief priests consult to kill him.
12. Jesus rides into Jerusalem.
20. Greeks desire to see Jesus.
23. He foretells his death.
37. The people are generally blinded;
42. yet many chief rulers believe, but do not confess him;
44. therefore Jesus calls earnestly for confession of faith.














(30) This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.--More exactly, not for My sake did this voice come, but for your sakes. These words are an answer to the thoughts, spoken and unspoken, of the multitude. Jesus Himself knew that the Father heareth Him always, but this answer is a sign to others. (Comp. John 11:41-42.) He calls it a voice in answer to those who said it thundered, or that an angel had spoken. There was that, then, which seemed to them but the thunder's sound or an angel's word, which, coming in answer to His prayer and after His teaching. should have been, to ears ready to hear and minds willing to receive, the voice of God witnessing to the mission of His Son.

Verse 30. - Jesus answered to the confused murmur of remark, and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes. This surely establishes, on the authority of Jesus, the objective character of the revelation. "It was necessary that you should hear and know and feel who and what I am." Ever thinking of others, living in them, he thinks of their spiritual advantage now. Thoma says that whereas the whole scene corresponds with the synoptic account of Gethsemane, it is idealized on the basis of the Johannine idea of the Divine Lamb and the Logos in flesh, and that Jesus here shows that he needed no strengthening, as the objective revelation was entirely for the sake of others, and not for his own consolation. This ingenious criticism of Thoma rests on the unjustifiable hypothesis that the scene before us did not precede the agony of the garden, but was a bare invention of the evangelist, because the latter ruled that Gethsemane needed "idealization." Why should not the two scenes be equally true, revealing the fundamental identity of character and personality, the one, moreover, preparing for the other? (See notes on John 19.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
In response,
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

said,
εἶπεν (eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

“This
αὕτη (hautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

voice
φωνὴ (phōnē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5456: Probably akin to phaino through the idea of disclosure; a tone; by implication, an address, saying or language.

was
γέγονεν (gegonen)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

not
Οὐ (Ou)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

for My benefit,
δι’ (di’)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

but
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

yours.
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


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