<p>13:32 <i>And God shall glorify him in Himself, and will glorify him immediately</i>- The second stage of the glorification was presumably in the events of the resurrection. However the idea may simply be as in GNB: &quot;Now the Son of Man's glory is revealed; now God's glory is revealed through him. And if God's glory is revealed through him, then God will reveal the glory of the Son of Man in himself, and he will do so at once&quot;. The idea is that the glory of the Son is that of the Father and <i>vice versa</i>, God Himself would glorify the Son just as the Son had Himself glorified the Father; even though both Father and Son have their own glory.</p><p>&quot;In Himself&quot; could be translated &quot;by Himself&quot;; and the &quot;immediately&quot; may mean that the time was soon coming when this mutual glorification was going to happen, in a spiritual intercourse between Father and Son which was the most sublime moment of all time and space. No wonder the translation is difficult, for the ideas are the profoundest to ever be expressed in language. The mutual glorification of Father and Son speaks of the Lord's death and resurrection; the mutual quality and nature of it is hard to plumb and express, hence the difficulty in both translation and interpretation at this point.</p><p>The Lord Jesus had that &ldquo;glory&rdquo; in what John calls &ldquo;the beginning&rdquo;, and he says that he and the other disciples witnessed that glory (Jn. 1:14). &ldquo;The beginning&rdquo; in John&rsquo;s Gospel often has reference to the beginning of the Lord&rsquo;s ministry. There is essentially only one glory- the glory of the Son is a reflection or manifestation of the glory of the Father. They may be seen as different glories only in the sense that the same glory is reflected from the Lord Jesus in His unique way; as a son reflects or articulates his father&rsquo;s personality, it&rsquo;s not a mirror personality, but it&rsquo;s the same essence. One star differs from another in glory, but they all reflect the same essential light of glory. The Lord Jesus sought only the glory of the Father (Jn. 7:18). He spoke of God&rsquo;s glory as being the Son&rsquo;s glory (Jn. 11:4). Thus Isaiah&rsquo;s vision of God&rsquo;s glory is interpreted by John as a prophecy of the Son&rsquo;s glory (Jn. 12:41). The glory of God is His &ldquo;own self&rdquo;, His own personality and essence. This was with God of course from the ultimate beginning of all, and it was this glory which was manifested in both the death and glorification of the Lord Jesus (Jn. 17:5). The Old Testament title &ldquo;God of glory&rdquo; is applied to the Lord Jesus, &ldquo;the Lord of glory&rdquo; (1 Cor. 2:8; James 2:1). It is <i>God&rsquo;s</i> glory which radiates from the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 4:6). Jesus is the brightness of God&rsquo;s glory, because He is the express image of God&rsquo;s personality (Heb. 1:3). He received glory from God&rsquo;s glory (2 Pet. 1:17). God is the &ldquo;Father of glory&rdquo;, the prime source of the one true glory, that is reflected both in the Lord Jesus and in ourselves (Eph. 1:17). The intimate relation of the Father's glory with that of the Son is brought out in Jn. 13:31,32: &quot;Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; and God shall glorify him in himself, and straightway shall he glorify him&quot;. &nbsp;What all this exposition means in practice is this. There is only &ldquo;one glory&rdquo; of God. That glory refers to the essential &ldquo;self&rdquo;, the personality, characteristics, being etc. The Lord Jesus manifested that glory in His mortal life (Jn. 2:11). But He manifests it now that He has been &ldquo;glorified&rdquo;, and will manifest it in the future day of His glory. And the Lord was as in all things a pattern to us. We are bidden follow in His path to glory. We now in our personalities reflect and manifest the one glory of the Father, and our blessed Hope is glory in the future, to be glorified, to be persons (note that- <i>to be persons</i>) who reflect and &lsquo;are&rsquo; that glory in a more intimate and complete sense than we are now, marred as we are by our human dysfunction, sin, and weakness of will against temptation. We now reflect that glory as in a dirty bronze mirror. The outline of God&rsquo;s glory in the face of Jesus is only dimly reflected in us. But we are being changed, from glory to glory, the focus getting clearer all the time, until that great day when we meet Him and see Him face to face, with all that shall imply and result in. But my point in this context is that there is only one glory. The essence of who we are now in our spiritual man, how we reflect it, in our own unique way, is how we shall always be.</p>