得荣最好的例证是花朵的开花。例如一粒康乃馨种子撒在地里，从地里长出之后，就开花了。这开花就是康乃馨种子的得荣。康乃馨种子包含康乃馨花的生命元素和生命形状。没有人看得见这样式、色彩和荣美，直到种子从地里长出来而且开花。藉着开花，种子得着荣耀，就是得着彰显。
当耶稣基督在肉体里而来，祂就像那粒小小的康乃馨种子。在祂里面，就是在祂的人形，人的体壳里，有神圣生命的一切荣美和形状，但都隐藏并局限在那小小的拿撒勒人里面。有一天，祂种在地里；死了，长起来，在复活里开了花。在祂的复活里，生命的荣美和丰富都释放并彰显出来。那就是子的得荣。既然父神一切的所是都具体化身在子里，当子得荣耀的时候，父也就在子的得荣里得了荣耀。
在这里，主向父献上一个祷告，要父荣耀子。荣耀子的意思就是，将一切隐藏在子肉体里神圣的荣耀，藉着死而复活释放出来。
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John 12:23-24
The best illustration of glorification is the blossoming of a flower. A carnation seed, for example, is sown into the earth. After it grows up out of the earth, it blossoms. This blossoming is the glorification of the carnation seed. The carnation seed contains the life element and the life shape of the carnation flower. The style, color, and beauty of the flower are all contained in a little carnation seed, but no one can see this style, color, and beauty until the seed grows out of the earth and blossoms. The blossom is the glory of the seed. The blossoming is the glorification of the seed, for it is by blossoming that the seed is glorified, that is, expressed.
When Jesus Christ came in the flesh, he was like that little carnation seed. In him, that is, in his human form, his human shell, were all the beauty and shape of the divine life. All the colorful aspects of the divine life were concealed and confined in that little Nazarene. One day, he was sown into the earth. After he died, he grew up and blossomed in his resurrection. In his resurrection, the beauty, form, style, color, and riches of life were released and expressed. That was the glorification of the Son. Since all that God the Father has been embodied in the Son, when the Son is glorified, the Father is also glorified in the Son’s glorification.
Here the Son offered a prayer to the Father, praying that the Father would glorify the Son that all the glory hidden within him might be manifested through his death and resurrection.