Jesus said
The words of Jesus carry profound authority and significance. In the Gospel of John, Jesus' statements often reveal deep theological truths. Here, His speech marks a transition from the intimate setting of the Last Supper to the unfolding of His passion. The act of speaking is a divine revelation, as Jesus, the Word made flesh, communicates the mysteries of God to His disciples.

Now
The use of "now" (νῦν, nyn) indicates immediacy and urgency. It highlights the present moment as a turning point in salvation history. This word emphasizes the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan, as the events leading to the crucifixion are set in motion. Theologically, it signifies the kairos moment, a divinely appointed time when God's purposes are realized.

the Son of Man
This title, "the Son of Man" (ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ho huios tou anthrōpou), is one of Jesus' preferred self-designations. It reflects both His humanity and His divine authority. Rooted in Daniel 7:13-14, the term evokes the image of a heavenly figure who receives dominion and glory. In this context, it underscores Jesus' role as the suffering servant who will be exalted through His death and resurrection.

is glorified
The concept of glorification (ἐδοξάσθη, edoxasthē) is central to John's Gospel. It refers to the revelation of God's character and purposes through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. In the immediate context, it points to the cross as the ultimate manifestation of divine love and justice. Theologically, glorification involves the paradox of suffering leading to exaltation, as Jesus' sacrificial death reveals the glory of God.

and God is glorified in Him
This phrase emphasizes the mutual glorification of the Father and the Son. The Greek construction suggests a reciprocal relationship, where the glorification of Jesus simultaneously reveals the glory of God the Father. This reflects the unity and co-equality of the Trinity, as the work of redemption is a collaborative act of divine love. Historically, this statement affirms the early Christian belief in Jesus' divinity and His unique role in revealing God's nature to humanity.

God is glorified in him.--This is a re-statement of the thought which has met us whenever the work of the Son has been dwelt upon. It was the Father's work too. The glory of the Son of Man in the redemption of the world was the glory of God, who gave His only-begotten Son, that by Him the world might be saved. There is a contrast drawn here between the humanity and the divinity united in the person of our Lord. In Him, i.e., in His person, in the person of the Son of Man suffering and crucified, there were manifested the attributes of the majesty and glory of God. It was an utterance to the world, in a fulness never heard before, of the Justice, Holiness, and Love which are the nature of God.

(1) The glorification of the Son of man, and of the Father in the Son. With ver. 31 the solemn valedictory discourse of our Lord commences - a veritable evangelium in evangelio, and by the aid of which we come more closely to the heart of Jesus. "Here," as Olshausen says, "we are entering the holy of holies in the Passion-history." We have, indeed, come through the courts of the temple, we have left the courts of the Gentiles, of the women, of the priests behind us, and have been waiting in the holy place of sacrifice and incense and ablution; now we follow our great High Priest to the veil over the holiest of all, and he prepares us to listen to the intercession that he makes before the unveiled majesty of the Father's love. The first section, extending from John 13:31-14:31, reports a series of questions by Peter, Thomas, Philip, Jude, which all turn more or less on the anticipated separation which he teaches them to regard as a veritable glorification of the Son of man, and also as a higher revelation to them of the nature of his own Person and of those relations between "the Son" and "the Father" which are imaged and shadowed forth in those between" the Son of man" and "God," which they could more readily understand. This prepares the way for the discourse and prayer which followed, in which the future spiritual union between the victorious Lord and his own disciples, between a sanctified humanity and the eternal Godhead, is exhibited, distinguished by wonderful blending of intuitive insight and supernatural revelation. The discourse is consistent with the stupendous conception which the evangelist had formed of the Person of Christ. Hilgenfeld and ethers regard this address as utterly incompatible with the valedictory discourses of Matthew 24, 25, and Mark 13. We have already seen that they are but different aspects of the same mysterious and wonderful Personage; that the synoptists are not silent concerning the spiritual presence of Christ in and with his disciples till the end of the world; and, on the other hand, that the fourth evangelist is perfectly alive to the reality of his kingdom in the world and to the true nature of his second coming. (On the historical character of this discourse, see Introduction, pp. 126, 127.) Verses 31, 32. - (The οϋν is not omitted by T.R. or Westcott and Holt. It stands on great authority. The different punctuation of Stephens, νὺξ ὅτε ἐξήλθε, dispensed with the οϋν; but this arrangement is not followed by modern editors.) When therefore he (Judas) was gone out, and the Lord was left with his trembling but faithful eleven, his heart yearned over them without reserve or exception, and he speaks as though his Passion had begun, and even ended too. Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. The aorist ἐδοξάσθη suggests more than "is glorified." Bengel says, "Jesus passionem ut breve iter spectatet metam potius prospicit." As Son of man, he has secured the highest glory of the most tender, humiliating self sacrifice, has cast out of the covenanted fellowship the hateful, baneful virus of a carnal triumph. To his eye as Son of man the end is secured, just as in John 17:10 he says, "I have been glorified in them." The thought is certainly complete without the clause appended in T.R., which simply reiterates the last clause, in order to make it the basis of a further thought: God will glorify him in (himself), if his suffering and sacrificed humanity has been the scene and material of a glory given to God, because a new manifestation of the Divine fullness in humanity; that is the reason why his very humanity will be lifted up into the Divine glory, itself becoming one with it, exalted far above these heavens, that he might fill all things. Elsewhere we read that "Christ is hidden in God" (Colossians 3:3; Acts 3:21). All his earthly sufferings will now be seen to be a forth-streaming of Divine love, the fullest revelation of the innermost essence of God (cf. Isaiah 42:1). Godet says, "When God has been glorified by a being, he draws him to his bosom and envelops him in his glory." This expression scarcely sustains the sublime uniqueness of the glory of God in the Son of man, and the glory of the Son of man in God. The words, and will straightway glorify him show how imminent was the glorification which is consummated by the new meaning put into death, and into all that leads to it and into the sacrifice involved in it. That "straightway glorify him" is a note of triumph, and this while Judas is completing his bargain (cf. the παρὰ σοί with ἐν ἑαυτῷ of this verse; cf. John 17:5).

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