Jesus used a rather simple request from some Greeks who want to see Him as an opportunity to declare His purpose: He is to glorify the Father by being lifted up on the Cross to be the means of salvation for all the world.
Christ submitted obediently to the Father, Hebrews indicates, so that He could become this source of our salvation.
As our Savior, He creates our hearts, making them clean and putting God's law in us so that will truly live His rightoueness in a way that was never fully accomplished in the Old Covenant.
It's a powerful scene when Christ asked God to glorify His Name and God spoke: God truly revealed Himself in the fullest way in Christ's Paschal Mystery of Death and Resurrection, which now is at work in us who join Him in dying and rising to live by faith and God accomplishes His purpose in us.
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