John 17:1-5
CHRIST'S GREAT SACERDOTAL PRAYER. Christ prays for His own glorification:... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST'S GREAT SACERDOTAL PRAYER. Christ prays for His own glorification:... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE WORDS SPAKE JESUS, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, AND SAID, FATHER, THE HOUR IS COME; GLORIFY THY SON THAT THY SON ALSO MAY GLORIFY THEE,... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THOU HAST GIVEN HIM POWER OVER ALL FLESH THAT HE SHOULD GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO AS MANY AS THOU HAST GIVEN HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL, THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THEE THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS CHRIST, WHOM THOU HAST SENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH; I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU GAVEST ME TO DO.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW, O FATHER, GLORIFY THOU ME WITH THINE OWN SELF WITH THE GLORY WHICH I HAD WITH THEE BEFORE THE WORLD WAS. Jesus had finished the words of His last great charge to His disciples. And now He lifts up His eyes to His heavenly Father and pours forth His soul in a most wonderful and inspiring pra... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE MANIFESTED THY NAME UNTO THE MEN WHICH THOU GAVEST ME OUT OF THE WORLD; THINE THEY WERE, AND THOU GAVEST THEM ME; AND THEY HAVE KEPT THY WORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ prays for the disciples as such that have kept the Word:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN THAT ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER THOU HAST GIVEN ME ARE OF THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEM THE WORDS WHICH THOU GAVEST ME; AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEM, AND HAVE KNOWN SURELY THAT I CAME OUT FROM THEE, AND THEY HAVE BELIEVED THAT THOU DIDST SEND ME. The prayer of the Lord now concerns His disciples, specifically His apostles. To them He has manifested, revealed,... [ Continue Reading ]
I PRAY FOR THEM; I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD, BUT FOR THEM WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME; FOR THEY ARE THINE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The distinction between the disciples and the world:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL MINE ARE THINE, AND THINE ARE MINE; AND I AM GLORIFIED IN THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD, BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD, AND I COME TO THEE. HOLY FATHER, KEEP THROUGH THINE OWN NAME THOSE WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE. Jesus here makes a deliberate distinction. He expressly says that He is praying for His disciples; His intercessi... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD, I KEPT THEM IN THY NAME; THOSE THAT THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE KEPT, AND NONE OF THEM IS LOST BUT THE SON OF PERDITION, THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
Keeping the believers in God's name:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW I COME TO THEE; AND THESE THINGS I SPEAK IN THE WORLD, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEMSELVES. As long as Jesus was present in the world, in the flesh, so long He personally tended to the keeping of His disciples in the faith. He taught, He admonished them day by day; He always... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE GIVEN THEM THY WORD; AND THE WORLD HATH HATED THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Word keeps in faith:... [ Continue Reading ]
I PRAY NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, BUT THAT THOU SHOULDEST KEEP THEM FROM THE EVIL.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH; THY WORD IS TRUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THOU HAST SENT ME INTO THE WORLD, EVEN SO HAVE I ALSO SENT THEM INTO THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FOR THEIR SAKES I SANCTIFY MYSELF, THAT THEY ALSO MIGHT BE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE TRUTH. Only one means Jesus knows of, both for working faith and for keeping in the faith, and that means He has given to the disciples: the Word of the Father. There is no need of following the lead of enthusiasts... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE, BUT FOR THEM ALSO WHICH SHALL BELIEVE ON ME THROUGH THEIR WORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ prays for the future believers:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE, AS THOU, FATHER, ART IN ME AND I IN THEE, THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE ONE IN US; THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT THOU HAST SENT ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE GLORY WHICH THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE:... [ Continue Reading ]
I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.... [ Continue Reading ]
FATHER, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME BE WITH ME WHERE I AM, THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME; FOR THOU LOVEDST ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. Jesus Himself had gained believers, disciples, through the preaching of the Word. In their interest He had addr... [ Continue Reading ]
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THE WORLD HATH NOT KNOWN THEE; BUT I HAVE KNOWN THEE, AND THESE HAVE KNOWN THAT THOU HAST SENT ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of the prayer:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HAVE DECLARED UNTO THEM THY NAME, AND WILL DECLARE IT, THAT THE LOVE WHEREWITH THOU HAST LOVED ME MAY BE IN THEM AND I IN THEM. It is the righteous Father whom Christ is addressing, and therefore He who fulfilled all righteousness may well expect from Him the hearing of a prayer based upon the... [ Continue Reading ]