“When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.”
When he heard this, Jesus said, 'This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it' — Jesus reinterprets the sickness: it is not ultimately fatal or meaningless but purposeful, serving to manifest the glory of God and the glorification of the Son. The reframing of sickness as occasion for divine glory is typical of John's theology (cf. 9:3). The statement that the sickness 'will not end in death' is cryptic and ambiguous — it will not end merely in death, for there will be resurrection and glorification.
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