UYohane 12:23

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

23 Wabaphendula ke uYesu esithi, Lifikile ilixa lokuba uNyana woMntu azukiswe.

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.