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"He saw his glory" Whose glory? John 12:37-45 does NOT claim that "Jesus is Yahweh"

 John 12:37-45 “Deity of Christ” believers have claimed that Isaiah saw Jesus, the second person of the Godhead, in Isaiah’s vision of God in Isaiah 6. “Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him” (John 12:41). But his in John 12:41 does not refer to Yahweh’s glory, but to the Messiah’s glory. John does not quote or refer to Isaiah 6:1, where Isaiah saw Yahweh in a vision. Instead, John quotes Isaiah 6:10 and 53:1, which relate to the people’s rejection of the message of Yahweh’s Sent Servant. What was true in Isaiah’s day was also true in Jesus’ and John’s day. That is, people rejected the message delivered by Yahweh’s sent messenger.   John 12:41 quotes Isaiah 6:10 and 53:1 (again, not Isaiah 6:1) with reference to the reaction of some people to the miracles that Jesus performed. Even with all the miracles, “they did not believe in him” (John 12:37). This is what Isaiah “saw” in his prophecies: the rejection of God’s message spoken by God’s servant-m...