'Father, glorify your name!' Then a voice came from heaven, 'I have glorified it, and will glorify it again' — Jesus' prayer moves from internal struggle to submission: asking not for deliverance but for the glorification of the Father's name. The voice from heaven (an audition of the Father) affirms both that the Father has been glorified through Jesus' ministry thus far and will be glorified again through the approaching passion and resurrection. This is one of only two occasions in John where the Father's voice is heard directly (the other being at Jesus' baptism in some textual traditions).

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