João 12:26

26 Quem me serve precisa seguir-me; e, onde estou, o meu servo também estará. Aquele que me serve, meu Pai o honrará.

João 12:26 Meaning and Commentary

John 12:26

If any man serve, me
Or is willing to be a servant of Christ, and to be esteemed as such;

let him follow me;
as in the exercise of the graces of love, humility, patience, self-denial, and resignation of will to the will of God, and in the discharge of every duty, walking as he walked, so in a way of suffering; for as the master, so the servants, as the head, so the members, through many tribulations, must enter the kingdom; to which he encourages by the following things:

and where I am;
in heaven, as he now was, as the Son of God; or "where I shall be", as the Syriac and Persic versions render it, even as man, in the human nature, when raised from the dead:

there shall also my servant be;
when he has done his work, and the place is prepared for him, and he for that, and where he shall ever abide; and as a further encouragement, he adds,

if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour;
by accepting his service, affording him his gracious presence here, and by giving him eternal glory hereafter, to which he has called him.

João 12:26 In-Context

24 Digo verdadeiramente que, se o grão de trigo não cair na terra e não morrer, continuará ele só. Mas, se morrer, dará muito fruto.

25 Aquele que ama a sua vida a perderá; ao passo que aquele que odeia a sua vida neste mundo a conservará para a vida eterna.

26 Quem me serve precisa seguir-me; e, onde estou, o meu servo também estará. Aquele que me serve, meu Pai o honrará.

27 “Agora meu coração está perturbado, e o que direi? Pai, salva-me desta hora? Não; eu vim exatamente para isto, para esta hora.

28 Pai, glorifica o teu nome!”Então veio uma voz dos céus: “Eu já o glorifiquei e o glorificarei novamente”.