may be either literal or a euphemism for death, misunderstanding ensues. Then Jesus speaks prophetically, announcing the significance of Lazarus’s—and his own—death: This illness … is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it (v. 4 RSV). Striking is the christological claim that Jesus participates in God’s identity: what glorifies God also glorifies the Son of God (v. 4d). The glory (doxa) theme in the prologue (1:14) and at his first sign in Cana (2:11) now moves
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