THE hour of the glory had come; but not the glory itself, the corn of wheat had to fall into the, ground and to die; that is, Christ had to suffer, in order to make atonement for sin, before He could take the kingdom. The hour therefore, in this passage, though spoken of in connection with glory, was not that of the kingdom, but of His death, from which, had He not come with that object, the Lord might have prayed to be saved. But was it not the hour of His glory? Yes, in another, in a moral, sense, it was so. "Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him," said the Lord, at the moment when Judas went out to betray Him, showing what He thought of the cross, that He esteemed it to be that in which the name of God was to be magnified, in a way that His own infinite mind alone could understand or appreciate.