John 12:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jesus answered them, saying,The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. ”

John 12:23 - Albert 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. I...
John 12:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Request of the Greeks. This incident is chosen to illustrate the Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain Hi...
John 12:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Son of man . App-98 and App-99.
John 12:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. The hour is come. Many explain this as referring to the death of Christ, because by it the glory of Christ was manifested; so that, in their opinion, Christ now declares that the time of...
John 12:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1671 OUR LORD’S VIEWS OF HIS OWN DEATH John 12:23-24 . Jesus answered them, saying. The hour is come, that the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a...
John 12:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. The hour is come, that the Son of man, etc. - The time is just at hand in which the Gospel shall be preache...
John 12:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Jesus answered them,— If we suppose that our Lord spoke these words as the Greeks were introduced to him, the following discourse will discover many a latent beauty. Our Lord might enlarge perh...
John 12:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. And [or, 'But de ( G1161 )] Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of ma...
John 12:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Triumphal Entry. Close of the Public Ministry 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3 , which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36 . is different. The suppe...
John 12:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And Jesus answered them, saying. — The words are rather the utterance of the thoughts of His own mind, which this visit of the Greeks suggests, than an answer. They are spoken to the Apostles, but...
John 12:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

III. THE CORN OF WHEAT. "Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast: these therefore came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying...
John 12:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sacrifice a Law of Life John 12:20-29 These were genuine Greeks. The East came to the manger-bed; the West to the Cross. These men came to Philip probably because of his Greek name. The inartic...
John 12:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows o...
John 12:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. (24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone:...
John 12:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
John 12:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Ver. 23. That the Son of man should be glorified ] That is, crucified, but he looked through death, and...
John 12:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jesus answered, saying This phraseology intimates the suitableness of the following discourse to this particular occasion; by attending to which, many of the beauties of it will be discovered. Our...
John 12:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us ( Luke 19:1-28 ). These days He spent in ministe...
John 12:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Certain Greeks Desire to See Jesus; The Recompence of Christ's Servants. 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up t...
John 12:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Christ replies, that the time was now come when he (who was the Son of God) should be glorified; that is, by the Gentiles receiving of the gospel, according to the many prophecies of it in the Old...
John 12:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. With great emphasis (truly, truly) I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alon...
John 12:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 12:20-36 . Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of salvation for all men, i...
John 12:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

answered He does not receive these Gentiles. A Christ in the flesh, King of the Jews, could be no proper object of faith to the Gentiles, though the Jews should have believed on Him as such. F...
John 12:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

John 12:20 , John 12:23 I. "The hour is come." The culminating hour of His life, that hour which is to explain all that has happened, to reveal all that is unknown. "It behoved Him thus to suf...
John 12:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

John 12:1 . Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting...
John 12:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 12:1 . Six days before the passover. The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day...
John 12:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip … saying, Sir, we would see Jesus The incident and its significance These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like t...
John 12:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospe...
John 12:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
John 12:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:10 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; Isaiah 49:5 ; Isaiah 49:6 ; Isaiah 53:10-12 ; Isaiah 55:5 ; Isaiah 60:9 ; John 13:31 ; John 13:32 ; John 17:10 ; John 17:1-5 ; John 17:9 ; Matthew 25:31
John 12:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Hour Is Come John 12:20-32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and the...
John 12:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified — With the Father and in the sight of every creature. But he must suffer first.

John 12:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

John 12:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

John 12:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

John 12:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

John 12:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

John 12:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

John 12:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

John 12:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

John 12:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

John 12:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

John 12:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

John 12:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

John 12:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John 12:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John 12:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John 12:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

John 12:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 12:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

John 12:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

John 12:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

John 12:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

John 12:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

John 12:23 - Scofield Reference Notes

John 12:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

John 12:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

John 12:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 12:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

John 12:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

John 12:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

John 12:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 12:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

John 12:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes