Joh 12:27-28 | PNT | STEP | Now is my soul troubled . It is the shadow of the cross and the tomb. The best comment on this verse is to compare it with the account of the agony in the garden. Here he exclaims: Father, save me from this hour . There, "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me" ( ). Here, he adds: But for this cause came I unto this hour . There, "Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done" ( ). Here the perfect resignation that follows the struggle in his soul is in the prayer, "Father, glorify thy name" ( ).

John 12:27-28

Now is my soul troubled. It is the shadow of the cross and the tomb. The best comment on this verse is to compare it with the account of the agony in the garden. Here he exclaims:

Father, save me from this hour. There, "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me" (Mt 26:39). Here, he adds:

But for this cause came I unto this hour. There, "Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done" (Lu 22:42). Here the perfect resignation that follows the struggle in his soul is in the prayer, "Father, glorify thy name" (Joh 12:28). Then came a voice from heaven, [saying], I have both glorified it. At Gethsemane the angel came to strengthen him; here the Father's voice speaks in approval. Three times the Father's voice was heard from the sky: (1) when Christ was buried in Jordan, a type of his own burial (Mt 3:17); (2) when Moses and Elijah talked with him on the holy mount about his death (Mt 17:5); (3) when he had his struggle of soul in view of death portrayed here, and triumphed.

Will glorify it again. God had glorified his name by the wonders wrought by Jesus; he would glorify it by his resurrection, his exaltation, the scenes of Pentecost, and the triumphs of the church.