João 12:28

28 Pai, glorifica o teu nome. Veio, então, do céu esta voz: Já o tenho glorificado, e outra vez o glorificarei.

João 12:28 Meaning and Commentary

John 12:28

Father, glorify thy name
The perfections of his nature, particularly his justice and holiness, meaning in himself; by his sufferings and death; intimating hereby, that his Father's glory was what he had in view, and that the securing of that would give him an infinite pleasure amidst all his sorrows. The Arabic version, and Nonnus, read "glorify thy Son", as in ( John 17:1 ) , and the Ethiopic version takes in both, "glorify thy name, and thy Son": and indeed, what glorifies the one, glorifies the other; see ( John 13:31 John 13:32 ) .

Then came there a voice from heaven;
as at his baptism and transfiguration, and which came from the Father, and was an articulate one, and what the Jews call "Bath Kol", or "the daughter of the voice":

[saying], I have both, glorified [it];
meaning in the incarnation, ministry, obedience and miracles of Christ; and particularly in that late one in raising Lazarus from the dead:

and will glorify [it] again;
by supporting him under, and carrying him through his sufferings and death, and by raising him from the dead, and setting him at his own right hand.

João 12:28 In-Context

26 Se alguém me quiser servir, siga-me; e onde eu estiver, ali estará também o meu servo; se alguém me servir, o Pai o honrará.
27 Agora a minha alma está perturbada; e que direi eu? Pai, salva-me desta hora? Mas para isto vim a esta hora.
28 Pai, glorifica o teu nome. Veio, então, do céu esta voz: Já o tenho glorificado, e outra vez o glorificarei.
29 A multidão, pois, que ali estava, e que a ouvira, dizia ter havido um trovão; outros diziam: Um anjo lhe falou.
30 Respondeu Jesus: Não veio esta voz por minha causa, mas por causa de vós.
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