How do devotion, public testimony and refusal to confess contrast?

Six days before the pasch Jesus comes to Bethania, where He raised Lazarus. They make Him supper; Martha serves and Lazarus sits at table. Mary uses a pound of costly right spikenard ointment to anoint Jesus’s feet, wiping them with her hair; its odor fills the house. Judas Iscariot, who will betray Him, asks why it was not sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor. The narrator attributes this not to care for the poor but to his being a thief with the purse carrying its contents. Jesus tells them to leave Mary alone so she may keep it against His burial day, saying the poor are always with them but He is not. The edition refers to the Matthew 26:11 annotation without reproducing it here. Many Jews come to see Jesus and Lazarus, and the chief priests think to kill Lazarus too because many Jews go away and believe in Jesus because of him.

The next day a great festival multitude hears Jesus comes to Jerusalem and meets Him with palm branches, Hosanna and a blessing of the Lord’s coming king of Israel. He finds a young ass and sits on it; the quoted writing tells Sion not to fear as its king comes on an ass’s colt. His disciples do not initially know these things, but after His glorification remember the writing and their acts toward Him. Witnesses of Lazarus’s raising testify, and hearing of the miracle brings people to meet Him. The Pharisees say they prevail nothing and the world has gone after Him. Gentiles who came to adore approach Philip of Bethsaida of Galilee, asking to see Jesus. Philip tells Andrew and both tell Jesus.

Jesus answers that the Son of man’s hour of glorification has come. A grain of wheat falling to the ground remains alone unless it dies; dying brings much fruit. Loving one’s life loses it; hating life in this world keeps it for life eternal. His minister must follow Him and will be where He is, honored by the Father. His soul is troubled: He asks what to say, speaks of the Father saving Him from the hour and says He came for this cause. He asks the Father to glorify His name. A heavenly voice says it has glorified and will glorify again. The multitude hears thunder according to some, an angel’s speech according to others. Jesus says the voice came for them rather than Him. The world’s judgment is now, its prince will be cast out, and if He is lifted from the earth He will draw all things to Himself. The narrator explains this as signifying His death. The multitude contrasts this with their hearing that Christ abides forever and asks who this Son of man is. He calls them to walk and believe while they have light, becoming children of light before darkness overtakes them; one walking in darkness does not know where he goes. He then goes away and hides.

Despite many miracles they do not believe, fulfilling Isaias’s question about who believed the hearing and to whom the Lord’s arm was revealed. Isaias also speaks of blinded eyes and hardened heart preventing seeing, understanding and conversion and healing. He spoke when seeing His glory. The edition attributes could-not-believe to would-not-believe, citing Augustine’s Tract 33 in Joan and referring to Mark 4:12. Many chief men believe but do not confess because of the Pharisees, to avoid being cast out of the synagogue; they love men’s glory more than God’s. Jesus cries that believing and seeing Him concern His sender. He comes as light so believers do not remain in darkness. He does not judge the hearer who fails to keep His words, having come to save the world. The one despising Him and rejecting His words is judged by His spoken word on the last day. He speaks not of Himself but under His Father’s command of what to say, knowing that command as everlasting life and speaking as His Father directs.