John 17:4-5

17:4 I glorified you on earth by completing ¹  the work you gave me to do. ²  17:5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side ³  with the glory I had with you before the world was created. ⁴ 

John 7:39

7:39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, ⁵  because Jesus was not yet glorified.) ⁶ 

John 11:4

11:4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, ⁷  but to God’s glory, ⁸  so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ⁹ 

John 13:31-32

The Prediction of Peter’s Denial

13:31 When ¹⁰  Judas ¹¹  had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 13:32 If God is glorified in him, ¹²  God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. ¹³ 

Acts 3:13

3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ¹⁴  the God of our forefathers, ¹⁵  has glorified ¹⁶  his servant ¹⁷  Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected ¹⁸  in the presence of Pilate after he had decided ¹⁹  to release him.

Philippians 2:9-11

2:9 As a result God exalted him

and gave him the name

that is above every name,

2:10 so that at the name of Jesus

every knee will bow

– in heaven and on earth and under the earth –

2:11 and every tongue confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord

to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:1

Christian Unity and Christ’s Humility

2:1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, ²⁰  any affection or mercy, ²¹ 

Philippians 1:21

1:21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

¹ tn Or “by finishing” or “by accomplishing.” Jesus now states that he has glorified the Father on earth by finishing (τελειώσας [teleiwsas] is best understood as an adverbial participle of means) the work which the Father had given him to do.

² tn Grk “the work that you gave to me so that I may do it.”

³ tn Or “in your presence”; Grk “with yourself.” The use of παρά (para) twice in this verse looks back to the assertion in John 1:1 that the Word (the Λόγος [Logos], who became Jesus of Nazareth in 1:14) was with God (πρὸς τὸν θεόν, pro" ton qeon). Whatever else may be said, the statement in 17:5 strongly asserts the preexistence of Jesus Christ.

⁴ tn Grk “before the world was.” The word “created” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

⁵ tn Grk “for the Spirit was not yet.” Although only B and a handful of other NT mss supply the participle δεδομένον (dedomenon), this is followed in the translation to avoid misunderstanding by the modern English reader that prior to this time the Spirit did not exist. John’s phrase is expressed from a human standpoint and has nothing to do with the preexistence of the third Person of the Godhead. The meaning is that the era of the Holy Spirit had not yet arrived; the Spirit was not as yet at work in a way he later would be because Jesus had not yet returned to his Father. Cf. also Acts 19:2.

⁶ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

⁷ tn Grk “This sickness is not to death.”

⁸ tn Or “to God’s praise.”

⁹ sn So that the Son of God may be glorified through it. These statements are highly ironic: For Lazarus, the sickness did not end in his death, because he was restored to life. But for Jesus himself, the miraculous sign he performed led to his own death, because it confirmed the authorities in their plan to kill Jesus (11:47-53). In the Gospel of John, Jesus’ death is consistently portrayed as his ‘glorification’ through which he accomplishes his return to the Father.

¹⁰ tn Grk “Then when.”

¹¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Judas) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tc A number of early mss (Ì⁶⁶ א* B C* D L W al as well as several versional witnesses) do not have the words “If God is glorified in him,” while the majority of mss have the clause (so א² A C² Θ Ψ Ë¹³ 33 Ï lat). Although the mss that omit the words are significantly better witnesses, the omission may have occurred because of an error of sight due to homoioteleuton (v. 31 ends in ἐν αὐτῷ [en autw, “in him”], as does this clause). Further, the typical step-parallelism found in John is retained if the clause is kept intact (TCGNT 205-6). At the same time, it is difficult to explain how such a wide variety of witnesses would have accidentally deleted this clause, and arguments for intentional deletion are not particularly convincing. NA²⁷ rightly places the words in brackets, indicating doubt as to their authenticity.

¹³ tn Or “immediately.”

¹⁴ tc ‡ The repetition of ὁ θεός (Jo qeos, “God”) before the names of Isaac and Jacob is found in Ì⁷⁴ א C (A D without article) 36 104 1175 pc lat. The omission of the second and third ὁ θεός is supported by B E Ψ 33 1739 Ï pc. The other time that Exod 3:6 is quoted in Acts (7:32) the best witnesses also lack the repeated ὁ θεός, but the three other times this OT passage is quoted in the NT the full form, with the thrice-mentioned θεός, is used (Matt 22:32; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37). Scribes would be prone to conform the wording here to the LXX; the longer reading is thus most likely not authentic. NA²⁷ has the words in brackets, indicating doubts as to their authenticity.

¹⁵ tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

¹⁶ sn Has glorified. Jesus is alive, raised and active, as the healing illustrates so dramatically how God honors him.

¹⁷ sn His servant. The term servant has messianic connotations given the context of the promise, the note of suffering, and the titles and functions noted in vv. 14-15.

¹⁸ tn Or “denied,” “disowned.”

¹⁹ tn This genitive absolute construction could be understood as temporal (“when he had decided”) or concessive (“although he had decided”).

²⁰ tn Or “spiritual fellowship” if πνεύματος (pneumato") is an attributive genitive; or “fellowship brought about by the Spirit” if πνεύματος is a genitive of source or production.

²¹ tn Grk “and any affection and mercy.” The Greek idea, however, is best expressed by “or” in English.