John 12:28

Contemporary English Version

So Father, bring glory to yourself. A voice from heaven then said, "I have already brought glory to myself, and I will do it again!"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Father, do what will bring you glory!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have already brought glory to myself. I will do it again."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Father glorify thy name. Then came ther a voyce fro heaven: I have glorified it and will glorify it agayne.

Hebrew Names Version
Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

International Standard Version
Father, glorify your name."Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!"Matthew 3:17;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

New Century Version
Father, bring glory to your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have brought glory to it, and I will do it again."

Update Bible Version
Father, glorify your name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, [saying], I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Webster's Bible Translation
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, [saying], I have both glorified [it], and will glorify [it] again.

English Standard Version
Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

World English Bible
Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But for this cause I came, for this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then a voice came from heaven, I have both glorified, and I will glorify it again.

Weymouth's New Testament
Father, glorify Thy name." Thereupon there came a voice from the sky, "I have glorified it and will also glorify it again."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
fadir, clarifie thi name. And a vois cam fro heuene, and seide, And Y haue clarified, and eft Y schal clarifie.

English Revised Version
Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Berean Standard Bible
Father, glorify Your name!" Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

Amplified Bible
"[Rather, I will say,] 'Father, glorify (honor, extol) Your name!'" Then a voice came from heaven saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

American Standard Version
Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Bible in Basic English
Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘Father, glorify your name!'" At this a bat-kol came out of heaven, "I have glorified it before, and I will glorify it again!"

Darby Translation
Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify [it] again.

Etheridge Translation
but on account of this have I come unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. And the voice was heard from heaven, I have glorified, and again I glorify. [fn]

Murdock Translation
Father, glorify thy name! And a voice was heard from heaven: I have glorified [fn] ; and I will glorify [fn] again.

King James Version (1611)
Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voice from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and wil glorifie it againe.

New Living Translation
Father, bring glory to your name." Then a voice spoke from heaven, saying, "I have already brought glory to my name, and I will do so again."

New Life Bible
Father, honor Your name!" Then a voice from heaven came, saying, "I have already honored My name. I will honor it again!"

New Revised Standard
Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voyce from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and will glorifie it againe.

George Lamsa Translation
O Father, glorify your name. Then a voice was heard from heaven, I am glorified, and I shall again be glorified.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There came, therefore, a voice out of heaven - I both have glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.

Revised Standard Version
Father, glorify thy name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Father, glorifie thy name. Then came there a voyce from heauen [saying] I haue both glorified it, and wyll glorifie it agayne.

Good News Translation
Father, bring glory to your name!" Then a voice spoke from heaven, "I have brought glory to it, and I will do so again."

Christian Standard Bible®
Father, glorify your name.”

King James Version
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Lexham English Bible
Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have both glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

Literal Translation
Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came out of the heaven: I both glorified it , and I will glorify it again.

Young's Literal Translation
Father, glorify Thy name.' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify [it];'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Father, glorifye thy name. Then came there a voyce from heauen: I haue glorified it, and wyl glorifye it agayne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
father, glorify thy name." then there came this voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again."

New English Translation
Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

New King James Version
Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again."

Simplified Cowboy Version
God, all this glory is yours!"Then a mighty voice came from heaven, "I have shown my power, and I will do so again."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

Legacy Standard Bible
Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

Contextual Overview

²⁷ Now I am deeply troubled, and I don't know what to say. But I must not ask my Father to keep me from this time of suffering. In fact, I came into the world to suffer. ²⁸ So Father, bring glory to yourself. A voice from heaven then said, "I have already brought glory to myself, and I will do it again!" ²⁹ When the crowd heard the voice, some of them thought it was thunder. Others thought an angel had spoken to Jesus. ³⁰ Then Jesus told the crowd, "That voice spoke to help you, not me. ³¹ This world's people are now being judged, and the ruler of this world is already being thrown out! ³² If I am lifted up above the earth, I will make everyone want to come to me." ³³ Jesus was talking about the way he would be put to death. ³⁴ The crowd said to Jesus, "The Scriptures teach that the Messiah will live forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" ³⁵ Jesus answered, "The light will be with you for only a little longer. Walk in the light while you can. Then you won't be caught walking blindly in the dark. ³⁶ Have faith in the light while it is with you, and you will be children of the light." After Jesus had said these things, he left and went into hiding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Father: John 18:11, Matthew 26:42, Mark 14:36

Then: Matthew 3:17, Matthew 17:5, 2 Peter 1:17

I have: John 9:3, John 11:4, John 11:40-44

and will: John 13:31, John 13:32, Isaiah 49:3-7, Ephesians 2:7, Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 3:21, Philippians 1:6-11, Revelation 5:9-14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:3 - before Deuteronomy 4:12 - only ye heard a voice Joshua 7:9 - what wilt thou 2 Samuel 7:26 - let thy 1 Chronicles 17:24 - that thy name Psalms 68:33 - his voice Proverbs 8:30 - I was daily Ezekiel 10:5 - the voice Daniel 4:31 - fell Matthew 26:39 - not Mark 1:11 - there Luke 3:21 - and praying Luke 12:50 - and Luke 22:42 - Father John 5:32 - is another John 5:43 - come John 7:18 - seeketh his glory John 8:49 - but John 11:41 - And Jesus John 11:42 - I knew John 17:1 - the hour John 17:4 - glorified John 17:6 - have manifested John 21:18 - thou wouldest not Romans 15:3 - Christ Philippians 1:20 - whether Philippians 2:8 - the death Hebrews 5:7 - in that he feared Hebrews 12:2 - endured 1 John 5:7 - The Father

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Father, glorify thy name,.... The perfections of his nature, particularly his justice and holiness, meaning in himself; by his sufferings and death; intimating hereby, that his Father's glory was what he had in view, and that the securing of that would give him an infinite pleasure amidst all his sorrows. The Arabic version, and Nonnus, read "glorify thy Son", as in John 17:1, and the Ethiopic version takes in both, "glorify thy name, and thy Son": and indeed, what glorifies the one, glorifies the other; see

John 13:31.

Then came there a voice from heaven; as at his baptism and transfiguration, and which came from the Father, and was an articulate one, and what the Jews call "Bath Kol", or "the daughter of the voice":

[saying], I have both, glorified [it]; meaning in the incarnation, ministry, obedience and miracles of Christ; and particularly in that late one in raising Lazarus from the dead:

and will glorify [it] again; by supporting him under, and carrying him through his sufferings and death, and by raising him from the dead, and setting him at his own right hand.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Glorify thy name - The meaning of this expression in this connection is this: “I am willing to bear any trials; I will not shrink from any sufferings. Let thy name be honored. Let thy character, wisdom, goodness, and plans of mercy be manifested and promoted, whatever sufferings it may cost me.” Thus Jesus showed us that God’s glory is to be the great end of our conduct, and that we are to seek that, whatever sufferings it may cost us.

I have both glorified it - The word “it” is not here in the original, but it is not improperly supplied by the translators. There can be no doubt that when God says here that he had glorified his name, he refers to what had been done by Christ, and that this was to be understood as an attestation that he attended him and approved his work. See John 12:30. He had honored his name, or had glorified him, by the pure instructions which he had given to man through him; by the power displayed in his miracles; by proclaiming his mercy through him; by appointing him to be the Messiah, etc.

Will glorify it again - By the death, the resurrection, and ascension of his Son, and by extending the blessings of the gospel among all nations. It was thus that he sustained his Son in view of approaching trials; and we may learn:

1.That God will minister grace to us in the prospect of suffering.

2.That the fact that God will be honored by our afflictions should make us willing to hear them.

3.That whatever was done by Christ tended to honor the name of God. This was what he had in view. He lived and suffered, not for himself, but to glorify God in the salvation of men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Father, glorify thy name. — By the name of God is to be understood himself, in all his attributes: his wisdom, truth, mercy, justice, holiness, c., which were all more abundantly glorified by Christ's death and resurrection, (i.e. shown forth in their own excellence,) than they had ever been before. Christ teaches here a lesson of submission to the Divine will. Do with me what thou wilt, so that glory may redound to thy name. Some MSS. read, Father, glorify my name: others, glorify thy Son.

Then came there a voice from heaven, c.] The following is a literal translation of Calmet's note on this passage, which he has taken from Chrysostom, Theodoret, Theophylact, and others: "I have accomplished my eternal designs on thee. I have sent thee into the world to make an atonement for the sin of the world, and to satisfy my offended justice. I will finish my work. Thou shalt shed thy blood upon the cross. My glory is interested in the consummation of thy sacrifice. But, in procuring my own glory, I shall procure thine. Thy life and thy death glorify me: I have glorified thee by the miracles which have accompanied thy mission and I will continue to glorify thee at thy death, by unexampled prodigies, and thy resurrection shall be the completion of thy glory and of thy elevation."

Christ was glorified:

1st. By the prodigies which happened at his death.

2. In his resurrection.

3. In his ascension, and sitting at the right hand of God.

4. In the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles. and

5. In the astonishing success with which the Gospel was accompanied, and by which the kingdom of Christ has been established in the world. 2 Corinthians 2:14.