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JOHN 13:32 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
John 13:31John 13:33
If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once — the textual situation here is complex (some manuscripts include an extra phrase), but the meaning is consistent: God's glorification of Jesus is not delayed but immediate, already accomplished in the act of self-gift on the cross and continuing through his resurrection and return to the Father. The threefold glorification (God is glorified, God will glorify the Son, glorification at once) creates a perfect circle in which Jesus' death and God's nature converge—both are revealed as love spending itself without reserve.

Church Fathers on John 13:32

After the glory of His miracles, and His transfiguration, the next glorifying of the Son of man began, when Judas went out with Satan, who had entered into him; Therefore when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the soil of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. For it is not the eternal only-begotten Word, but the glory of the Man born of the seed of David, which is here meant. Christ at His death, in which He glorified God, having spoiled principalities and powers,…

Origen · 3rd century

i.e. by Himself, not by any other. And shall straightway glorify Him, i.e. not at any distant time, but immediately, while He is yet on the very cross shall His glory appear. For the sun was darkened, rocks were rent, and many bodies of those that slept arose. In this way He restores the drooping spirits of His disciples, and persuades them, instead of sorrowing, to rejoice.

Chrysostom · 4th century

The unclean went out: the clean remained with their cleanser. Thus will it be when the tares are separated from the wheat; The righteous shall shine forth as the sale in the kingdom of their Father (Matt 13:43). Our Lord, foreseeing this, said, when Judas went out, as if the tares were now separated, and He left alone with the wheat, the holy Apostles. Now is the Son of man glorified; as if to say, Behold what will take place at My glorifying, at which none of the wicked…

Augustine · 4th century · Or thus
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