Chapter 17:
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John 17
In this chapter our Lord prays,
1. For himself, ver. 1-5. John xvii, 1-5
2. For the apostles, ver. 6-19; John xvii, 6-19 and again, ver. 24-
26. John xvii, 24-26
3. For all believers, ver. 20-23. John xvii, 20-23 And
4. For the world, ver. 21-23. John xvii, 21-23 In his prayer he
comprises all he had said from chap. xiii, 31, and seals, as it were,
all he had hitherto done, beholding things past, present, and to
come. This chapter contains the easiest words, and the deepest
sense of any in all the Scripture: yet is here no incoherent
rhapsody, but the whole is closely and exactly connected.
Verse 1. Father - This simplicity of appellation highly became the only-
begotten Son of God; to which a believer then makes the nearest
approach, when he is fullest of love and humble confidence. The
hour is come - The appointed time for it; glorify thy Son - The
Son glorified the Father, both before and after his own
glorification. When he speaks to the Father he does not style
himself the Son of man.
Verse
2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh - This answers to
glorify thy Son. That he may give eternal life, &c.-This answers
to that thy Son may glorify thee. To all whom thou hast given him
- To all believers. This is a clear proof that Christ designed his
sacrifice should avail for all: yea, that all flesh, every man, should
partake of everlasting life. For as the Father had given him power
over all flesh, so he gave himself a ransom for all.
Verse
3. To know - By loving, holy faith, thee the only true God - The
only cause and end of all things; not excluding the Son and the
Holy Ghost, no more than the Father is excluded from being Lord,
1 Cor. viii, 6; but the false gods of the heathens; and Jesus Christ -
As their prophet, priest, and king: this is life eternal - It is both the
way to, and the essence of, everlasting happiness.
Verse
4. I have finished the work - Thus have I glorified thee, laying the
foundation of thy kingdom on earth.
Verse
5. The glory which I had - He does not say received - He always
had it, till he emptied himself of it in the days of his flesh.
Verse
6. I have manifested thy name - All thy attributes; and in
particular thy paternal relation to believers; to the men whom thou
hast given me - The apostles, and so ver. 12. They were thine - By
creation, and by descent from Abraham. And thou hast given
them me - By giving them faith in what I have spoken. So ver. 9.
Verse
7. Now they know that all things - Which I have done and spoken,
are of thee - And consequently right and true.
Verse
8. They have received them - By faith.
Verse
9. I pray not for the world - Not in these petitions, which are
adapted to the state of believers only. (He prays for the world at
ver. 21, 23, that they may believe - That they may know God hath
sent him.) This no more proves that our Lord did not pray for the
world, both before and afterward, than his praying for the apostles
alone, ver. 6-19, proves that he did not pray for them also which
shall believe through their word, ver. 20.
Verse
10. All things that are mine are thine, and that are thine are mine -
These are very high and strong expressions, too grand for any
mere creature to use; as implying that all things whatsoever,
inclusive of the Divine nature, perfections, and operations, are the
common property of the Father and the Son. And this is the
original ground of that peculiar property, which both the Father
and the Son have in the persons who were given to Christ as
Mediator; according to what is said in the close of the verse, of his
being glorified by them; namely, believing in him, and so
acknowledging his glory.
Verse
11. Keep them through thy name - Thy power, mercy, wisdom,
that they may be one - with us and with each other; one body,
separate from the world: as we are - By resemblance to us, though
not equality.
Verse
12. Those whom thou hast given me I have guarded, and none of
them is lost, but the son of perdition - So one even of them whom
God had given him is lost. So far was even that decree from being
unchangeable! That the Scripture might be fulfilled - That is,
whereby the Scripture was fulfilled. The son of perdition signifies
one that deservedly perishes; as a son of death, 2 Sam. xii, 5;
children of hell, Matt. xxiii, 15, and children of wrath, Eph. ii, 3,
signify persons justly obnoxious to death, hell, wrath. Psalm cix,
8.
Verse
13. In the world - That is, before I leave the world. My joy - The
joy I feel at going to the Father.
Verse
15. That thou wouldest take them out of the world - Not yet: but
that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one - Who reigns
therein.
Verse
17. Sanctify - Consecrate them by the anointing of thy Spirit to
their office, and perfect them in holiness, by means of thy word.
Verse
19. I sanctify myself - I devote myself as a victim, to be
sacrificed.
Verse
20. For them who will believe - In all ages.
Verse
21. As thou art in me - This also is to be understood in a way of
similitude, and not of sameness or equality. That the world may
believe - Here Christ prays for the world. Observe the sum of his
whole prayer,
1. Receive me into thy own and my glory;
2. Let my apostles share therein;
3. And all other believers:
4. And let all the world believe.
Verse
22. The glory which thou hast given me, I have given them - The
glory of the only begotten shines in all the sons of God. How
great is the majesty of Christians.
Verse
24. Here he returns to the apostles. I will - He asks, as having a
right to be heard, and prays, not as a servant, but a Son: that they
may behold my glory - Herein Is the happiness of heaven, 1 John
iii, 2.
Verse
25. Righteous Father - The admission of believers to God through
Christ, flows even from the justice of God.
Verse
26. I have declared to them thy name - Thy new, best name of
love; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me - That thou and
thy love, and I and my love, may be in them - That they may love
me with that love.
Chapter 17:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
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