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John 17:1
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,
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,
JOHN 17:1 o` ui`o,j {B} It is difficult to decide whether sou was omitted because copyists thought it superfluous, or whether it was added in order to enhance the solemnity of the style. On the basis...
CHAPTER XVII. _Christ prays the Father to glorify him_, 1. _In what eternal life consists_, 2-3. _Shows that he has glorified his Father, by fulfilling his will_ _upon earth, and revealing him to...
THESE WORDS - The words addressed to them in the preceding chapters. They were proceeding to the garden of Gethsemane. It adds much to the interest of this prayer that it was offered in the stillness...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Finished Work. (John 17:1 .)_ 2. The Father's Name and the Father's Gift. (John 17:6 .) 3. Not of the World but Kept in it. (John 17:11 .) 4. Sanctification of Himself for His O...
JOHN 13:33 TO JOHN 17:26. THE LAST DISCOURSES AND PRAYER. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problems of st...
Jesus prays with full consciousness that the crisis of His earthly career is come. Will His death prove the annihilation of His person and work, or its glorification, the transition to a higher form o...
FATHER, THE HOUR IS COME. After the discourses were ended, he "lifted up his eyes," the very attitude being stamped on the memory of John, and began his prayer. "The hour" of the great sacrifice, of...
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify the Son that the Son may glorify you. Glorify him, just as you gave him authority over...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
WORDS. things; i.e. from John 13:31 to John 16:33. JESUS. App-98. TO. unto. Greek. _eis._ App-104. HEAVEN. the heaven (singular) See on Matthew 6:9;...
The Prayer for Himself The Son was sent to give to men eternal life, which consists in the knowledge of God. This work the Son has completed to the glory of the Father, and therefore prays to be glor...
_These words_ More exactly, _these_ THINGS, as in John 16:1; John 16:4; John 16:6; John 16:25;...
ἘΠΆΡΑΣ for ἐπῆρε. Omit καί before ΕἾΠΕΝ and before Ὁ ΥἹΌΣ, and omit σου after Ὁ ΥἹΌΣ. 1. ἘΠΆΡΑΣ. As before the raising of Lazarus (John 11:41), Jesus looks heavenwards in calm confidence as to the iss...
THE PRAYER FOR HIMSELF The Son was sent to give to men eternal life, which consists in the knowledge of God. This work the Son has completed to the glory of the Father, and therefore prays to be glor...
Ver 1. These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you: 2. As you have given him power over all fles...
ΈΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить, ΈΠΆΡΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΠΑΊΡΩ (G1869) подбирать. Part, указывает на сопровождающие обстоятельства или _temp. Aor._ обозначает действие, предш...
DISCOURSE: 1707 OUR LORD’S PRAYER TO BE GLORIFIED ON EARTH John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son als...
THESE WORDS SPAKE JESUS,— Our Lord, having thus finished his ministry, and given his disciples all the instructions that he judged necessary, closed the whole with a solemn prayer to God; wherein, _fi...
PRAYER FOR HIMSELF _Text: John 17:1-5_ 1 These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; _glorify thy_ Son, that the Son may glorify thee: 2 even a...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:1-5 The following is an Analysis of the first section of John 17: 1. The Son praying, verse 1. In John 17 the veil is drawn aside, and we are admitted with...
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: For the general character of this portion of the...
12 The words of our Lord preserved for us in the four accounts of His life come very far from giving us all that He had to say. They were sadly limited by the incapacity of His hearers. Even His close...
CHRIST'S HIGH-PRIESTLY PRAYER 1-26. Christ's Great Intercession for Himself, for the Apostles, and for the World. This prayer is often, and suitably called Christ's 'High-priestly prayer,' because in...
THE HOUR] viz. of My glorification through death. GLORIFY THY SON] Christ asks the Father to glorify Him by accepting the sacrifice of His death, and by raising Him from the dead. When this is done, t...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS PRAYS ON HIS OWN BEHALF 17:1-5 V1 After Jesus said all these things, he looked up towards heaven. He prayed: ‘...
THESE WORDS SPAKE JESUS, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN. — Comp. Note on John 14:31. If the view thus adopted is the correct one, it follows that the prayer of this chapter, as well as the discourse...
XVI. _ CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER._ "These things spake Jesus; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee: even as Thou gave...
Ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν … καὶ ἐπῆρε. The connection of ἐλάλησεν with ἐπῆρε by καί shows that the prayer followed immediately upon the discourse, and was, therefore, uttered in the hearing of the disciples. ἐπῆ...
JESUS PRAYS FOR HIS OWN John 17:1-10 In Christ's own oratory we hear Him pray. But how wonderful! There is a tone of expectant faith in this marvelous prayer of assured trust, as if He knew that He w...
This chapter records for us words of our Lord addressed to His Father. In the first movement He was dealing strictly and only with relationships between Himself and the Father, referring to a past glo...
These (1) words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, (2) Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: (1) Jesus Christ, the everlasting high Pries...
_Glorify thy Son, by signs and miracles, lest dying so disgraceful a death, I seem to be no more than another man: that thy Son may glorify thee, that my death may make thee praised and glorified. (Wi...
CHAPTER 24. VALEDICTORY PRAYER John 17. O the infinite moment, interest, value, and consolation of this prayer! Because it is the last, regular, formal petition our Savior offered for His disciples i...
“ _These things spoke Jesus; then he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said: Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee;_ 2, _as thou hast given him power over all fl...
1. The prayer of Jesus has three parts: the first, a prayer for Himself, John 17:1-5; the second, a prayer for His disciples, John 17:9-19; and the third, a prayer for all subsequent believers, John 1...
THIRD SECTION: 17:1-26. THE PRAYER. The shout of victory with which Jesus closed His conversations with the disciples was an anticipation of faith. To transform the victory which was announced into a...
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: (2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, tha...
CONTENTS The Lord Jesus having finished in the foregoing Chapter his Sermon, here follows it up with Prayer. He first makes the Subject of it Personal, in Relation to Himself and the Father. He next...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
1._These words spake Jesus. _After having preached to the disciples about bearing the cross, the Lord exhibited to them those consolations, by relying on which they would be enabled to persevere. Havi...
chapter 17 is divided thus: John 17:1-5 relate to Christ Himself, to His taking His position in glory, to His work, and to that glory as belonging to His Person, and the result of His work. John 17:1-...
THESE WORDS SPAKE JESUS,.... Referring to his sermons and discourses, his words of comfort, advice, direction, and instruction, delivered in the three preceding Chapter s: AND LIFT UP HIS EYES TO HEA...
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: Ver. 1. _And lift up his eyes to heaven_] This and...
_These words spake Jesus_ Namely, the words recorded in the three preceding Chapter s; _and lifted up his eyes to heaven_ Put himself in the posture of prayer. The following has been called Our Lord's...
THESE WORDS; the words contained in the preceding Chapter s. THE HOUR; the time for his suffering and death. GLORIFY THY SON; by sustaining him in his coming trials, and showing that he is indeed th...
HIS MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION (v.1) In Chapter s 13 to 16 the Lord has completed what He had to tell His disciples, ending with the empowering ministry of chapter 16. He has made every provision for t...
1-5 Our Lord prayed as a man, and as the Mediator of his people; yet he spoke with majesty and authority, as one with and equal to the Father. Eternal life could not be given to believers, unless Chr...
JOHN CHAPTER 17 1 THESSALONIANS 17:1 Christ prayeth to his Father to glorify him, 1 THESSALONIANS 17:6 and to preserve his apostles in unity of faith, 1 Thessalonia
Tertullian Against Praxeas must surely have been on earth) is once more recognised by the Son as in heaven, when, "lifting up His eyes thereto,"[352] Origen Commentary on John Book I "He whom the Fa...
John 17:1 Jesus G2424 spoke G2980 (G5656) words G5023 G2532 up G1869 (G5656) His G846 eyes...
‘Jesus spoke these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, “Father, the hour is come. Glorify your Son, that the Son may glorify you”.' ‘Lifting up his eyes to heaven'. The main purpose of...
JESUS' DEDICATION OF HIMSELF (JOHN 17:1). In opening His final discourse in John 13:31 Jesus had said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. And God will glorify Him in Himsel...
JESUS PRAYS IN THE UPPER ROOM (JOHN 17). Depending on how we interpret John 14:31 this prayer appears either to have been made in the Upper Room, or at some spot on the way to the Garden of Gethsemane...
John 17:1. THESE THINGS SPAKE JESUS, AND LIFTING UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, HE SAID. Thus the Evangelist connects the prayer before us with the parting discourse contained in the previous Chapter s. It is...
LIFTING UP (επαρας). First aorist active participle of επαιρω, old and common verb with οφθαλμους (eyes) as in John 4:35; John 6:5; John 11:41.FATHER (Πατερ). Vocative form as in verses...
GLORIFY SEVEN PETITIONS: (1) That Jesus may be glorified as the Son who has glorified the Father (John 17:1), (Philippians 2:9). (2) for restoration to the eternal glory (John 17:5);...
This chapter contains the marvellous prayer of our Great High Priest. May the Holy Spirit apply its teaching to our hearts as we read it! John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes t...
John 17:1. _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: as thou hast given him power over all fl...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ This is in a very special sense our Lord's prayer. What a word that is from the lips of Jes...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ The hour to which he had so long looked forward, the hour which he had anticipated with ar...
This matchless chapter contains that great intercessory prayer of Christ for his people which may most properly be called «the Lord's prayer.» John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his e...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ That tremendous hour which was the very hinge of history, that hour in which he must suffer...
Can there be found, in all the records of mankind, in all the documents that have ever been preserved, anything that can match this record of our Saviour's great intercessory prayer? He seems to pray...
John 17:1. _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:_ Jesus is going forth to die, and he kn...
John 17:1. _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:_ Christ's great intercessory prayer beg...
John 17:1. _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: As thou hast given him power over all fl...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, thee hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ The hour has come. The most important...
CONTENTS: Jesus' prayer of intercession. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Judas. CONCLUSION: If God be our Father, we have an intercessor to appear for us continually to guarantee our safe delivery...
John 17:1. _Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son._ By Father the divinity is understood, the Father being the fountain of deity. The hour of my passion being come, glorify thy Son by speedily rai...
AFTER JESUS FINISHED SAYING THIS. The things in the last few Chapter s. McGarvey says this is still in the upstairs room. FATHER, THE HOUR HAS COME. [People commonly prayed standing with their arms ra...
_These words spake Jesus_ CHRIST’S PRAYER FOR HIMSELF I. THE CIRCUMSTANCE. 1. The place--probably the west bank of the Kidron; but to a devout soul any spot serves as an oratory (John 4:21; 1 Timot...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 17:1 Jesus LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO HEAVEN, a customary posture in prayer (compare Psalms 123:1). THE HOUR HAS COME. See note on
1-25 CHAPTER 17 VER. 1. _hese 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_. These are the last words of...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 17:1. THESE THINGS SPAKE, ETC. (ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν).—The reference is to the discourse just ended. LIFTED UP.—From the troubles of earth and time the mind and soul ar...
EXPOSITION JOHN 17:1 4. The _high-priestly intercession_._ Audible communion of the Son with the Father_._ _The prayer which now follows reveals, in the loftiest and sublimest form, the Divine human...
These words spake Jesus, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven (John 17:1), Now He is finished with His disciples and He turns now to the Father. He said, "I am not alone; the Father is with Me." And co...
1 Peter 1:21; Acts 3:13; Isaiah 38:14; John 11:4; John 11:41;...
These words [τ α υ τ α]. Literally, these things. So Rev. Said. John nowhere says that Jesus prayed, as the other Evangelists do. Thy Son - thy Son [σ ο υ τ ο ν υ ι ο ν - ο υ ι ο ς]. Properly, thy So...
THE PRAYER CHAPTER John 17:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of John contains the prayer which Christ spoke just as He entered the Garden of Gethsemane, and went from there to the Cross....
LOOKING BACKWARD John 17:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of John contains the prayer which Jesus Christ uttered in the upper room after He had taken of the Passover and had broken the...
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...
Our blessed Saviour having ended his consolatory and valedictory sermon, contained in the three foregoing Chapter s; in this chapter we have recorded his last prayer, with and for his disciples, befor...