If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
32. If God be glorified. Christ concludes that he will obtain a glorious triumph by his death; because his sole design in it is, to glorify his Father; for the Father did not seek his glory from the death of his Son in such a manner as not to make the Son a partaker of that glory.
When Judas left, I could speak freely at last. Christ is glorified by purifying His church; corruptions within it disgrace Him. Now that the traitor was gone, the family was clean, and He could pour out His heart without restraint.
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Commenting on John 13:31-35
If God be glorified in him,.... Seeing this is a certain truth, is indisputably matter of fact, that all the perfections of God are glorified in Christ, by his sufferings and death: God shall also glorify him in himself; either "with himself"; with his own glory, which was promised to Christ, and which he had before the world was, and for which he prays, Joh...