Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Ver. 31. Therefore when he was gone out] The room being rid of the traitor, Christ deals more freely and familiarly with the rest, and arming them against the scandal of the cross, he calls his death his glory, esteems his crown of thorns more precious than Solomon's diadem; looks upon his welts as spangles, his blows on the face as ingots, his wounds as gems, his spittings on as sweet ointment, his cross as his throne. This is a paradox to flesh and blood; Jews and Gentiles jeer at it; as Lucian the atheist, who rails upon Christ blasphemously, calling him the crucified impostor; ανασκολοπισμενον σοφιστην. (Luc. in Vita Peregr.) And as for Christians, they foolishly believe, saith he, that they shall enjoy immortality and live in bliss for ever; therefore they set light by life, yea, many of them offer themselves voluntarily to be slain for their superstition. Persuaserunt sibi infaelices se immortalitate fruituros. Thus he. And another heathen proconsul, Actius Antoninus, in Asia cum persequeretur Christianos (Tertul.), when he had tired himself with killing Christians, and saw no end of it, but that they came thicker upon him, crying out "We are Christians," &c., he cursed them and cried out, O miseri, si libet perire, num vobis rupes aut restes desunt? O wretches, can you find no other way to die, but I must be troubled with you?