John 13:31-32 NASB
Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; [32] if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.
John 17:1 NASB
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,
Luke 24:26 NASB
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”
Romans 6:3-5 NASB
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? [4] Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. [5] For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
Romans 6:4 says that Jesus was raised the dead by what? It doesn’t say that Jesus was ration the dead by the mercy of the Father, or by His power; even though we know that these attributes of the Father were involved when He raised Jesus from the dead and are spoken of in other places in Scripture, but Romans 6:4 emphasizes the fact that Jesus was ration the dead “through the glory of the Father.” It is interesting to me that the Holy Spirit to the apostle Paul focuses on the glory of God accomplishing the resurrection of Jesus. Could this be at least what Jesus is referring to when he said, “glorify your Son, that the Son may glorify you.” God’s glory was certainly on display in the crucifixion, but 1 Corinthians 15 makes it very clear that if Jesus did not rise from the dead, we are still lost in our sins. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, and at the heart of His victory over the devil was delivering us from the reign of sin. At the Cross, Jesus took care of the old, but in His resurrection, he raised up a whole new creation free from sins dominance. I love what Ephesians 2:10 says, “we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus…,” and therefore, the creation of a new humanity in the resurrection of Jesus is the masterstroke of God’s glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7 says that the finished work of Christ in the Cross and resurrection was predestined before the ages “to our glory.” In the resurrection, the triune God was glorified, and we were glorified in Jesus, and the miracle of the New Creation. Colossians 1:27 says that, “Christ in us is the hope of glory.” At no time in all of history was God’s glory more on display that in the miracle of the resurrection of all things made new in Christ that first Easter morning.