This phrase indicates a response to a preceding event or question. In the context of John 12, Jesus is responding to the request of some Greeks who wished to see Him. This signifies the universal scope of His mission, as Greeks represent the Gentile world.

You have come to myriads of angels 23 in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.…

Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

John 12:23. And Jesus answered them Not directly and particularly; he did not in plain terms signify what was his will, whether these Greeks should be admitted or not; and yet expressed himself in such a manner as shows he was not averse to it, but was pleased with it, and takes notice of it, as an evidence of the near approach of his ...

What does John 12:23 mean? In prior moments, Scripture has made the point that Jesus' "time had not yet come." Some of these come from Jesus' own lips (John 2:4; 7:6), or references to that effect (John 8:20).

23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed.

Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day. Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Three times during His ministry, the Lord Jesus said His hour had not yet come. He first said this to His mother at the wedding in Cana of Galilee at the start of His ministry. The second was to His siblings, near the end of His ministry, when they mocked their brother about his Messianic claims.

Joh 12:23 The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. The answer of Christ may have been to Philip and Andrew, and the Greeks may have heard and understood it. The substance is that the time of his glorification had come and that glorification would draw all men, Greek, Gentiles as well as Jews, to him.