Therefore when he had left, Jesus *said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
Parallel translations
- WEB When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
- KJV Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
- BSB When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
- NKJV So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
- NLT As soon as Judas left the room, Jesus said, “The time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory, and God will be glorified because of him.
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Quick answer
With Judas gone, Jesus declares that the Son of Man has now been glorified, and God in Him. It interprets the approaching cross as the moment of glory.
Overview
Jesus speaks of His coming death as already accomplished glory, for through the cross the Son and the Father are most gloriously revealed. What looks like defeat is in truth the supreme display of God's love and saving power. The verse teaches that Christ's glory shines brightest in His self-giving on the cross.
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Cross-references · 25
- 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- John 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- John 16:14He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
- John 7:39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
- 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Acts 2:36“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
- Eph 1:5–8having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
- Heb 5:5–9So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
- Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
- Rom 15:6–9that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- John 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
- John 12:23Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
- Eph 3:10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
- Phil 2:11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Eph 2:7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
- Col 2:14–15wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
- Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- Rev 5:9–14They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- John 12:28Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
- John 17:1–6Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
- Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
- 2 Cor 4:4–6in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- Luke 2:10–14The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
- Isa 49:3–6He said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
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