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JOHN 12:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
John 12:27John 12:29
“Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
'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).

Church Fathers on John 12:28

To our Lord’s exhortation to His disciples to endurance, they might have replied that it was easy for Him, Who was out of the reach of human pain, to talk philosophically about death, and to recommend others to bear what He is in no danger of having to bear Himself. So He lets them see that He is Himself in an agony, but that He does not intend to decline death, merely for the sake of relieving Himself: Now is My soul troubled.

Chrysostom · 4th century

I hear Him say, He that hates his life in this world, shall keep it to life eternal; and I am ravished, I despise the world; the whole of this life, however long, is but a vapor in My sight; all temporal things are vile, in comparison with eternal. And again I hear Him say, Now is My soul troubled. you bid my soul follow You; but I see your soul troubled. What foundation shall I seek, if the rock gives way? Lord, I acknowledge your mercy. you of your love was of your own will…

Augustine · 4th century

i.e. What but something to confirm My followers? Father, save Me from this hour.

Bede · 8th century
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