"27 “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” 30 Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine. 31 Now is the judgement of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”"
John 12:27-32
It is very interesting to note that the words of Jesus in 27 are so similar to those that Matthew, Mark and Luke all use in their record of our Lord's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. John does not record Gethsemane at all, probably because from his view-point the whole earthly life of Jesus was His Gethsemane. But, it may be that here we have his echo, so to speak, of that scene. One commentator suggests that the words 'save Me from this hour' mean 'help Me to come safely out of this hour', and what follows should be understood as meaning, 'I came to this hour for this very purpose, that I might be saved from this hour, that is, 'the going into, and exhausting this hour, this cup, is the very appointed way of My glorification'. It will be useful to pause here before going further, to look at the pattern John unfolds in this chapter. The first incident (1-11), the anointing at Bethany, referred to Jesus' death, the second (12-19), the triumphal entry, referred to His kingship - death and resurrection, in that order. It may be that John is trying to illustrate the meaning and truth of our Lord's words by reminding his readers that this is the case, and that the only way He could establish His kingship was through death. And the result? 'The whole world gone after Him' (19) and the coming of the Greeks (21), symbolic of the drawing of the Gentile world to the Saviour - the universal appeal of the gospel. This is the pattern John is giving us.