John 12:23

Amplified Bible

And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified and exalted.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man

King James Version (1611)
And Iesus answered them, saying, The houre is come, that the Sonne of man should be glorified.

King James Version
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

English Standard Version
And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

New American Standard Bible
But Jesus answered them by saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

New Century Version
Jesus said to them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to receive his glory.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jesus *answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said: The time has come for the Son of Man to be given his glory.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua gave them this answer: "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Darby Translation
But Jesus answered them saying, The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus said to them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to receive his glory.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iesus answered them, saying, The houre is come, that the Sonne of man must bee glorified.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified.

Good News Translation
Jesus answered them, "The hour has now come for the Son of Man to receive great glory.

Lexham English Bible
And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.

Literal Translation
But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.

American Standard Version
And Jesus answereth them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

Bible in Basic English
And Jesus said to them in answer, The hour of the glory of the Son of man has come.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

International Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.John 13:32; 17:1;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
BUT Jeshu answered and said to them, The hour hath come that the Son of man may be glorified.

Murdock Translation
And Jesus answered, and said to them: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iesus aunswered them, saying: The houre is come, that the sonne of man must be glorified.

English Revised Version
And Jesus answereth them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

World English Bible
Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

Weymouth's New Testament
His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus answerde `to hem, and seide, The our cometh, that mannus sone be clarified.

Update Bible Version
And Jesus answers them, saying, The hour has come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

New English Translation
Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

New King James Version
But Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, "Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory.

New Life Bible
Jesus said to them, "The hour is near for the Son of Man to be taken to heaven to receive great honor.

New Revised Standard
Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, Jesus, answereth them, saying - The hour hath come, that the Son of Man should be glorified!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

Revised Standard Version
And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus answered them sayinge: the houre is come yt the sonne of ma must be glorified.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus answered the, and sayde: The houre is come, that the sonne of man must be glorified.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but Jesus answered them, saying, the time is come, when the son of man is to be glorified.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus said, "My time is at hand. I'll soon get the glory my Father has promised.

Contextual Overview

²⁰Now there were some Greeks (Gentiles) among those who were going up to worship at the feast; ²¹these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." ²²Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. ²³And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified and exalted.²⁴"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone [just one grain, never more]. But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest. ²⁵"The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal. ²⁶"If anyone serves Me, he must [continue to faithfully] follow Me [without hesitation, holding steadfastly to Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]; and wherever I am [in heaven's glory], there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The hour: John 13:31, John 13:32, John 17:1-5, John 17:9, John 17:10, Isaiah 49:5, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 53:10-12, Isaiah 55:5, Isaiah 60:9, Matthew 25:31, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 2:10

Reciprocal: Isaiah 26:15 - thou art Matthew 26:18 - My time Mark 14:41 - the hour Mark 15:31 - He John 1:51 - the Son John 2:4 - mine John 4:23 - the hour John 12:16 - when John 13:1 - knew John 16:32 - the hour

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus answered them,.... Not directly and particularly; he did not in plain terms signify what was his will, whether these Greeks should be admitted or not; and yet expressed himself in such a manner as shows he was not averse to it, but was pleased with it, and takes notice of it, as an evidence of the near approach of his glorification:

saying, the hour is come, that the son of man should be glorified; by rising from the dead, ascending to heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, and from thence pouring forth the Spirit upon his disciples, who should go and preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, as well as Jews; and which would issue in the conversion of many of them, and so in his glory, of which the coming of these Greeks was an earnest. But he intimates, in the next verse, that he must first die.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hour is come - The time is come. The word “hour” commonly means a definite part or a division of a day; but it also is used to denote a brief period, and a fixed, definite, determined time. It is used in this sense here. The appointed, fixed time is come - that is, is so near at hand that it may be said to be come.

The Son of man - This is the favorite title which Jesus gives to himself, denoting his union with man, and the interest he felt in his welfare. The title is used here rather than “The Son of God,” because as a man he had been humble, poor, and despised; but the time had come when, as a man, he was to receive the appropriate honors of the Messiah.

Be glorified - Be honored in an appropriate way - that is, by the testimony which God would give to him at his death, by his resurrection, and by his ascension to glory. See John 7:39.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 23. The hour is come, that the Son of man, c.] The time is just at hand in which the Gospel shall be preached to all nations, the middle wall of partition broken down, and Jews and Gentiles united in one fold. But this could not be till after his death and resurrection, as the succeeding verse teaches. The disciples were the first fruits of the Jews these Greeks, the first fruits of the Gentiles.