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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 13:31-38
  by J.C. Ryle
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When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified,
and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also
glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. Children, I
am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as
I said to the Jewish authorities, ‘Where I am going you cannot
come,’ now I tell you the same.

"I give you a new commandment--to love one another. Just as I have loved
you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that
you are my disciples--if you have love for one another."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied,
"Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."
Peter said to him, "Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down
my life for you!" Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? I
tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have
denied me three times!

In this passage we find the Lord Jesus at last alone with His eleven
faithful disciples. The traitor, Judas Iscariot, had left the room, and
gone out to do his wicked deed of darkness. Freed from his painful
company, our Lord opens His heart to His little flock more fully than He
had ever done before. Speaking to them for the last time before His
passion, He begins a discourse which for touching interest surpasses any
portion of Scripture.

These verses show us what glory the crucifixion brought both to God the
Father and to God the Son. It seems impossible to avoid the conclusion
that this was what our Lord had in His mind when He said, "Now is the
Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him." It is as though He
said, "The time of my crucifixion is at hand. My work on earth is
finished. An event is about to take place tomorrow, which, however
painful to you who love Me, is in reality most glorifying both to Me and
My Father."

This was a dark and mysterious saying, and we may well believe that the
eleven did not understand it. And no wonder! In all the agony of the
death on the cross, in all the ignominy and humiliation which they saw
afar off, or heard of next day, in hanging naked for six hours between
two thieves--in all this there was no appearance of glory!--On the
contrary, it was an event calculated to fill the minds of the Apostles
with shame, disappointment, and dismay. And yet our Lord\

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