Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
John 12:28
Glorify [δ ο ξ α σ ο ν]. (Wyc., clarify, as the Vulgate clarifca.) Name. See on Matthew : 19.
Glorify [δ ο ξ α σ ο ν]. (Wyc., clarify, as the Vulgate clarifca.) Name. See on Matthew : 19.
JOHN 12:28 sou to. o;noma {A} Instead of the reading “glorify thy name,” found in all the early and in most of the later witnesses, several of the later witnesses (L X ¦1 ¦13 33 1071 1241 _al_), infl...
Verse 28. _FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME._] By the _name_ of God is to be understood _himself_, in all his attributes: his wisdom, truth, mercy, justice, holiness, c., which were all more abundantly glori...
GLORIFY THY NAME - The meaning of this expression in this connection is this: “I am willing to bear any trials; I will not shrink from any sufferings. Let thy name be honored. Let thy character, wisdo...
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. ...
THE REQUEST OF THE GREEKS. This incident is chosen to illustrate the Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain His a...
THEN CAME. VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING,. HAVE GLORIFIED IT, ETC. At Gethsemane the angel came to strengthen him; here the Father's voice speaks in approval. Three times the Father's voice was heard from...
"Now, my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, rescue me from this hour.' But it was for this reason that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name." A voice came from heaven: "I have...
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
HEAVEN (singular) See note on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. I HAVE, &c. The Father's name was glorified in the wilderness by the Son's victory over the "tempter". It was about to be glorified again by t...
The Judgment of Men Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the hierarchy, Christ's triumph and the Pharisees" discomfiture,...
_Then came there_ Better, _There came_ THEREFORE, i.e. in answer to Christ's prayer. There can be no doubt what S. John _wishes_us to understand; that a voice was heard speaking articulate words, that...
THE JUDGMENT OF MEN Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the priests, Christ’s triumph and the Pharisees’ discomfiture, t...
THE DESIRE OF THE GENTILES AND THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN...
ἮΛΘΕΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν. _There came_ THEREFORE, i.e. in answer to Christ’s prayer. There can be no doubt what S. John _wishes_ us to understand;—that a voice was heard speaking articulate words, that some could...
27. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I to this hour. 28. Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I...
_SOME GREEKS WANTED TO SEE JESUS -- JOHN 12:20-43:_ Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover. They said to Philip, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Philip told Andrew and together they t...
ΔΌΞΑΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ, _см._ John 12:16. ΈΔΌΞΑΣΑ _aor. ind. act._ ΔΟΞΆΣΩ _fut. ind. act._...
DISCOURSE: 1673 CHRIST’S RESIGNATION John 12:27. _Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name_. TH...
NOW IS MY SOUL TROUBLED:— Having taken a view of his own sufferings, and proposed them as an example to his disciples, the prospect moved him to a great degree, and he discovered to them the conflict...
THE MAGNETIC CROSS _Text 12:27-36_ 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. There c...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 43 John 12:20-36 The following is a suggested Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The end of our Lord’s public ministry had almost been reach...
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME - by some present testimony. THEN CAME THERE...
7 While facing the terrible ordeal of death our Lord found no fellowship with His disciples in the sorrows before Him. Like Peter, they could not entertain such a thought. But it seems that Mary alone...
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at t...
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME] viz. by accepting My willing sacrifice upon the Cross. A VOICE] The voices from heaven in the NT. are objective in the sense that all present hear them and are startled by th...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Betha...
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME. — The pronoun “Thy” is emphatic. The Son’s will is one with that of the Father; the Son’s glory is in the glorifying the Father’s name. Comp. the opening clause of the Lord’s...
IV. _ THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF THE CROSS._ "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name. There came...
_The Greeks inquire for Jesus_....
Therefore He prays: Πάτερ δόξασόν σου τὸ ὄνομα. “Father, glorify Thy name.” Complete that manifestation of Thy holiness and love which through me Thou art making; complete it even at the cost of my ag...
SACRIFICE A LAW OF LIFE John 12:20-29 These were genuine Greeks. The East came to the manger-bed; the West to the Cross. These men came to Philip probably because of his Greek name. The inarticulate...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
Father, (d) glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, [saying], I have both glorified [it], and will glorify [it] again. (d) So then the Father's glory is Christ's glory....
_Father, glorify thy name, by my sufferings and death, as well as by many miracles that shall follow. A voice came from heaven, and so loud, that some there present compared it to thunder: and at the...
THE GREEKS COME TO SEE JESUS John 12:20-36. _“And there were certain Greeks of those having come up that they may worship during the festival; then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galil...
SECOND SECTION: 12:1-36. THE LAST DAYS OF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. This section includes three parts: 1. The supper of Jesus at Bethany: John 12:1 to John 11:2. His entry into Jerusalem: John 12:12 to...
III. THE LAST SCENE IN THE TEMPLE: JOHN 12:20-36. Of all the events which occurred between Palm-day and Thursday evening, the evening before the Passion, John mentions but one, which is omitted by th...
VV. 28B, 29. “ _Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, I have both glorified it and I will glorify it again._ 29. _The multitude therefore that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered; others...
VV. 27, 28 a. “ _Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I unto this hour._ 28a. _Father, glorify thy name.” _ The soul, ψυχή, is the sea...
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour. (28) Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I h...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
_THE SANCTIFICATION OF SORROW_ ‘Now is My soul troubled: and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy Name.’ John 12:27 Joy an...
28._Father, glorify thy name. _By these words he testifies, that he prefers the _glory _of _the Father _to all things else, and even neglects and disregards his own life. And the true regulation of al...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
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...
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, _saying_, I have both glorified _it_, and will glorify _it_ again. Ver. 28. _Then came there a voice from heaven_] God sometimes gives a...
_Father, glorify thy name_ Whatever I suffer. For this may be considered as a further expression of his resignation, importing that he was willing to submit to whatever the Father should judge necessa...
I HAVE; in the attestations which he had borne to Christ the Messiah. AND WILL; in the miracles at his death, resurrection, and ascension to glory....
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME. THEN CAME THERE A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, I HAVE BOTH GLORIFIED IT, AND WILL GLORIFY IT AGAIN....
The manner of Christ's glorification:...
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
27-33 The sin of our souls was the troubled of Christ's soul, when he undertook to redeem and save us, and to make his soul an offering for our sin. Christ was willing to suffer, yet prayed to be sav...
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME; that is, make thy name glorious, make it to be known and famous over all the earth. A general petition, but such a one as all our particular requests must be reduced to, if t...
Tertullian Against Praxeas , "I have both glorified, and will glorify again,"[312] Tertullian On Prayer and again, "Father, glorify Thy name; "[16] Cyprian Epistle LXXX To all of whom the Lord als...
John 12:28 Father G3962 glorify G1392 (G5657) Your G4675 name G3686 Then G3767 voice G5456 came G2064 ...
“Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? No, for this purpose have I come to this hour. Father, glorify your name!” The coming of these earnest Greeks had brough...
‘Then a voice came from Heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again”.' The very coming of Jesus, and His powerful ministry, have glorified the Father's name. We beheld His glory, glory a...
John 12:28. FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME. ‘Let Thy glory shine forth in Thy name, in Thy character, as Father and in all that is involved in establishing Thy fatherly relation to men.' THERE CAME THEREFO...
Jesus has been doomed to death (John 11:53; John 11:57), and the hour is at hand when He shall be seized, and the sentence executed. But the malice of man cannot interfere with the purposes of God. In...
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME (πατερ, δοξασον σου το ονομα). First aorist (note of urgency) active imperative of δοξαζω and in the sense of his death already in verses John 12:16; John 12:23 and again in...
John 12:28 The craving of sinfulness is for self-glorification. The thirst of godliness is for the glory of God. He who sees God's Name and comprehends it, hears God's Name and understands it, looks a...
Our Lord had gained a sudden popularity through raising Lazarus from the dead, and the people had attended him with great enthusiasm as he rode through the streets of Jerusalem. For the time, things l...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
John 12:12. On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they beard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Bl...
Our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead; and this miracle made a great sensation among the people. They came to meet Jesus, waving palm branches before him, and all Jerusalem was on a stir. John 12:19....
Our Lord had raised Lazarus from the dead, and this miracle had excited great attention in Jerusalem. In consequence of this, the people had led him in triumph through the streets, and everywhere ther...
John 12:20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most plen...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
FATHER, BRING GLORY TO YOUR NAME! In Gethsemane, an angel came to help him (Luke 22:43); here it is God who speaks. Three times God spoke from heaven during Christ's life: _first,_ as Jesus is buried...
_Father, glorify Thy name_ THE GLORIFIED NAME 1_._ One important aspect of Christian life is the imitation of Christ. But this is not necessarily doing the same things that Christ did, but involves...
_And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip … saying, Sir, we would see Jesus_ THE INCIDENT AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like the...
_Now is My soul troubled._ This struggle is like one of those fissures in its crust which enables science to fathom the bowels of the earth. It lets us read the very inmost depths of our Lord’s being...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:28 This is one of three times in Jesus’ earthly ministry when a heavenly voice affirms his identity (see Matthew 3:17;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 12:20 These verses conclude the first major part of John’s Gospel, which narrates Jesus’ mission to the Jews. The arrival of some Greeks signals to Jesus that the mission exclusively...
1-50 CHAPTER 12 Ver. 1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover_, &c. He came from Ephraim, as the Passover was drawing on when He was to die. And He came to Bethany to prepare Himself for it; nay m...
_Father, glorify thy Name._ That in My death, which I willingly undertake, I may glorify thy Name, by the entire obedience and devotion with which I will offer myself as a Victim for the sins of the w...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:20. Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of salvation for all men, _i.e._ t...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
2 Peter 1:17; Ephesians 2:7; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 3:21; Isaiah
THE HOUR IS COME John 12:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and then Andrew...
Father, glorify thy name — Whatever I suffer. Now the trouble was over. I have glorified it — By thy entrance into this hour. And I will glorify it — By thy passing through it....