John 12:37-43 (ESV)
The thing About Faith and Understanding
37: Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
38: so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39: Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
40: “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”
41: Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
The thing About Love and Fear
42: Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
43: for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.