What Does John 13:32 Mean?
If God is clothed in weight in him, God will also clothe him in himself, and will straightway clothe him in weight.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.THE KEY
God’s weight is revealed through him, then given to him from within God.
THE MEANING
God’s weight becomes visible in him, and God gives him that weight from within God’s own being, at once. What is revealed through him is also bestowed on him; the verse holds manifestation and receiving together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that glory is public acclaim or self-made status: the verse locates the weight in God’s action, within God.
THE ROOT
δοξάζω
doxazō
GROWS FROM
δοξ-
dox-
To glorify or honor; its related noun δόξα (doxa) carries the sense of weight, honor, or glory.
“If God is clothed in weight in him” in this verse is doxazō. The three uses of δοξάζω (doxazō, to glorify or honor) trace one movement: God’s weight is seen in him, bestowed on him within God, and bestowed again. The repetition holds revelation and receiving together, beyond the sense of a compliment or applause.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: Weight, honor, glory
δόξα
The related noun brings the sense of weight into the repeated act of glorifying.
endoxos: Honored, glorious, held in esteem
ἔνδοξος
This related form shows honor as something a person can bear, illuminating how weight is bestowed on him.
THE PATTERN
God’s weight becomes visible through the one who receives it, and that person’s honor makes God visible.
Jesus spoke these words, and lifted his eyes to the heavens, and said, Father, the hour has come; give weight to your Son, that your Son also may give weight to you.For God, who said, Light shall shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts, to give the light of knowing the weight of God in the face of Jesus, the Anointed One.If anyone speaks, let them speak as the words of God. If anyone serves, let them serve by the strength God supplies, so that in all things God may be given weight through Jesus, the Anointed One, to whom belong the weight and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.THE THREAD
Jesus spoke these words, and lifted his eyes to the heavens, and said, Father, the hour has come; give weight to your Son, that your Son also may give weight to you.The same Greek root, δοξάζω (doxazō, to glorify or honor), makes the exchange explicit: the Father glorifies the Son, and the Son glorifies the Father. It opens John 13:32 as a relationship of revealed and received weight.
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