John 8:54

Jesus then refuted His critics’ accusation that He was glorifying Himself. Any glory apart from glory that God bestows amounts to nothing (cf. Hebrews 5:5). Rather Jesus said that it was the Father who was glorifying Him. Ironically His critics, who claimed to know God, failed to perceive that this was what God was doing.

"Their relation to God was formal; his was familial." [Note: Tenney, "John," p. 98.]