Section 9
for this glorification in John 17:1: "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son that the Son may glorify You."
When the Lord Jesus was incarnated, He put on humanity. This means that no longer was He merely God, for through incarnation He had become the God-man, having both divinity and humanity. Furthermore, it was necessary for His humanity to be brought into divinity. The bringing of the Lord's humanity into divinity was His glorification. According to the New Tes tament revelation, when the Lord Jesus rose up from the dead, He rose up with both His divin ity and His humanity. This means He rose up as the God-man. This rising of the Lord's human ity was His glorification.
When some hear that the man Jesus is now in glory, they may understand this to mean that He is in the heavens. However, Luke 24:26 in dicates that He entered into glory even before His ascension. While on the way to Emmaus, He said to the disciples, "Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?" This refers to His resurrection, which brought Him into glory (1 Cor. 15:43; Acts 3:13a, 15a). Therefore, glorification means not only that the Son of God was released from His