(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

This was his reply-- "The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;