John 12:28-30

12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, ¹  “I have glorified it, ²  and I will glorify it ³  again.” 12:29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice ⁴  said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. ⁵  12:30 Jesus said, ⁶  “This voice has not come for my benefit ⁷  but for yours.

John 17:1

Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him

17:1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward ⁸  to heaven ⁹  and said, “Father, the time ¹⁰  has come. Glorify your Son, so that your ¹¹  Son may glorify you –

Psalms 123:1

Psalm 123 ¹² 

A song of ascents. ¹³ 

123:1 I look up ¹⁴  toward you,

the one enthroned ¹⁵  in heaven.

Luke 18:13

18:13 The tax collector, however, stood ¹⁶  far off and would not even look up ¹⁷  to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful ¹⁸  to me, sinner that I am!’ ¹⁹ 

[12:28]  ¹ tn Or “from the sky” (see note on 1:32).

[12:28]  ² tn “It” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[12:28]  ³ tn “It” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[12:29]  ⁴ tn “The voice” is not in the Greek text. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[12:29]  ⁵ tn Grk “Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” The direct discourse in the second half of v. 29 was converted to indirect discourse in the translation to maintain the parallelism with the first half of the verse, which is better in keeping with English style.

[12:30]  ⁶ tn Grk “Jesus answered and said.”

[12:30]  ⁷ tn Or “for my sake.”

[17:1]  ⁸ tn Grk “he raised his eyes” (an idiom).

[17:1]  ⁹ tn Or “to the sky.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven” depending on the context.

[17:1]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the hour.”

[17:1]  ¹¹ tc The better witnesses (א B C* W 0109 0301) have “the Son” (ὁ υἱός, Jo Juios) here, while the majority (C³ L Ψ Ë¹³ 33 Ï) read “your Son also” (καὶ ὁ υἱὸς σου, kai Jo Juio" sou), or “your Son” (ὁ υἱὸς σου; A D Θ 0250 1 579 pc lat sy); the second corrector of C has καὶ ὁ υἱός (“the Son also”). The longer readings appear to be predictable scribal expansions and as such should be considered secondary.

[123:1]  ¹² sn Psalm 123. The psalmist, speaking for God’s people, acknowledges his dependence on God in the midst of a crisis.

[123:1]  ¹³ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[123:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I lift my eyes.”

[123:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “sitting.” The Hebrew verb יָשַׁב (yashav) is here used metonymically of “sitting enthroned” (see Pss 9:7; 29:10; 55:19; 102:12).

[18:13]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “standing”; the Greek participle has been translated as a finite verb.

[18:13]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “even lift up his eyes” (an idiom).

[18:13]  ¹⁸ tn The prayer is a humble call for forgiveness. The term for mercy (ἱλάσκομαι, Jilaskomai) is associated with the concept of a request for atonement (BDAG 473-74 s.v. 1; Ps 51:1, 3; 25:11; 34:6, 18).

[18:13]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “the sinner.” The tax collector views himself not just as any sinner but as the worst of all sinners. See ExSyn 222-23.