“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:”
Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you — Jesus addresses God as Father (pater), marking the intimacy of the High Priestly Prayer, while "the hour" (hōra) refers to his passion, the climactic moment toward which the entire Gospel has moved (2:4, 7:30, 8:20, 12:23, 13:1). The prayer for mutual glorification reflects the Johannine theme that Jesus' death and exaltation constitute his true glory, not despite the cross but through it. This opening invokes the eschatological "hour" when God's purposes reach their culmination in the Son's sacrificial death.
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