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John 17:12
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.
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.
JOHN 17:12 w|- de,dwka,j moi( kai, {B} See the comment on ver. 11....
Verse John 17:12. _I KEPT THEM IN THY NAME_] In thy doctrine and truth. _BUT THE SON OF PERDITION_] So we find that Judas, whom all account to have been _lost_, and whose case at best is extremely d...
WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD - While I was engaged with them among other men - surrounded by the people and the temptations of the world. Jesus had now finished his work among the men of the wor...
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...
On the ground of this accomplished work He now prays for these disciples. The world, which is not beyond the sphere of His love, is excluded from this part of His prayer. It can be reached only throug...
NONE OF THEM IS LOST BUT THE SON OF PERDITION. God had given him twelve; he had kept them in the name of the Father, and only one was lost, Judas, the traitor, the son of perdition, which the Scriptu...
"It is for them that I pray. It is not for the world that I pray, but for those whom you have given me because they are yours. All that I have is yours, and all that you have is mine. And through them...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
WHILE. When. with. Greek. _meta._ App-104. IN THE WORLD. All the texts omit. THOSE THAT. As in John 17:11, all the texts put the relative in the singular, and read "in Thy name that Thou gayest Me,...
The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
In John 17:6 the disciples" acceptance of Christ is given as the basis of intercession for them: here another reason is added, their need of help during Christ's absence. This plea is first stated in...
_in the world_ These words are omitted by the best authorities. _I kept_ Literally, _I was keeping:_Christ's continual watching over His disciples is expressed. -I" is emphatic, implying -now that I...
11, 12. ὮΙ for οὕς: οὕς in John 17:12 caused the omission of ΚΑΊ before ἘΦΎΛΑΞΑ, a colon being placed at σου....
11–16. In John 17:6-8 the disciples’ acceptance of Christ is given as the basis of intercession for them: here another reason is added,—their need of help during Christ’s absence. This plea is first s...
ἘΤΉΡΟΥΝ. The imperfect expresses Christ’s continual watching. Ἐγώ is emphatic: ‘_I_ kept them while I was with them; but now do Thou keep them.’ Mark the change to ἘΦΎΛΑΞΑ, I GUARDED: this is the prot...
9–19. The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
THE PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES...
Ver 9. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours. 10. And all mine are yours, and yours are mine and I am glorified in them. 11. And now I am...
ΉΜΗΝ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΊΜΊ, _см._ John 17:11. ΈΤΉΡΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΤΗΡΈΩ, _см._ John 17:6. Обыденный _impf._ указывает, что Он хранил их длительный период времени, ΔΈΔΩΚΑΣ _perf. i...
WHILE I WAS WITH THEM— "During my personal abode with them, I kept them in the firm faith, and in thesteadfast practice of the precepts of my holy religion, so far as I revealed those unto them. I say...
PRAYER FOR THE DISCIPLES _Text: John 17:6-19_ 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. 7...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:6-12 The following is an Analysis of the second section of John 17: — John 17 is the sequel to chapter 13. In each the actions of our great High Priest are i...
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. WHILE...
4 The charge against all mankind is that all sin and are wanting of the glory of God (Rom_3:23). God guarantees to give glory and honor and incorruption to all who endure in good acts. Our Lord is the...
17:12 perdition, (a-31) 'Perished' and 'perdition' are verb and noun from one Greek root. they show what Judas belonged to....
THE SON OF PERDITION] i.e. him who is destined to perdition, viz. Judas Iscariot. In 2 Thessalonians 2:3 the expression is used of Antichrist. The phrase is a Hebraism: cp. Matthew 23:15,; 'a son of G...
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...
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: ‘...
WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD. — Comp. the opening words of John 17:11. During His presence with them there was not this special need for commending them to the Father’s care. His relation to the...
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...
_Prayer for the disciples_....
The protection now asked had been afforded by Christ so long as He was with the disciples. ὅτε ἤμην μετʼ αὐτῶν, ἐγὼ ἐτήρουν … “when I was with them, I kept them in Thy name which Thou hast given me: a...
IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD John 17:11-17 What is the _world?_ The inspired definition is given in 1 John 2:16. Enumerating her three offsprings, the Apostle goes on to say, “All that is in the...
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...
While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. [5] He still speaks, says St. John Chrysostom, as man, and after a human manner, by mentioning the advantage they seemed to enjoy, as long as he convers...
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...
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...
Jesus asks for the support of His apostles in faith and their full consecration to the divine work. It seems to me that it is altogether wrong for _Weiss_, with Lucke, _de Wette_, etc., to connect the...
“ _When I was with them_, _I kept them in thy name; those whom thou hast given me, I have watched over; and none of them is lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled._ 1...
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. (7) Now they have known that all things whatsoever...
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...
12._While I was with them in the world. _Christ says that he hath kept them in the name of his Father; for he represents himself to be only a servant, who did nothing but by the power, and under the p...
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-...
WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD,.... This does not imply that Christ was not in the world now, for he was; but signifies that he was just going out of it; and that his continuance in it was very sh...
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. Ver. 12....
_And now I am no more in the world_ Having finished the work thou gavest me to do in it; _but these_ My apostles; _are in the world_ Exposed to various hardships and dangers; _and I come to thee_ Whom...
I KEPT THEM IN THY NAME; by the manifestation of thy character and will in my instructions and example. SON OF PERDITION; Judas, whose ruin was foretold in the Scriptures. Psalms 109:8; ACTS 1:20. Tho...
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...
11-16 Christ does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, but that they might be kept from sin, strengthened for their duty, and brought safe to heaven. The prosperity of the soul is...
Christ speaks here of himself as one who had already died, was risen, and ascended, though none of all these things were past, because they were so suddenly to come to pass. I have, (saith our Saviour...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II and he was called the "son of perdition"[122]...
John 17:12 While G3753 was G2252 (G5713) with G3326 them G846 in G1722 world G2889 I G1473 kept...
“While I was with them I kept those whom you have given me, and I guarded them and not one of them perished except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” Jesus has faithfully an...
JESUS' DEDICATION OF HIS APOSTLES (JOHN 17:6). Having prayed for the fulfilment of His own destiny Jesus now turns His attention to the needs of His Apostles. They are men of proved faithfulness, but...
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 17:12. WHEN I WAS WITH THEM, I KEPT THEM IN THY NAME WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME, AND I GUARDED THEM, AND NOT ONE OF THEM PERISHED, BUT THE SON OF PERDITION, THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED. I...
I KEPT (ετηρουν). Imperfect active of τηρεω, "I continued to keep."I GUARDED (εφυλαξα). First aorist (constative) active of φυλασσω. Christ was the sentinel (φυλαξ, Acts 5:23) for them. Is he our...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
John 17:12 Christ's Care for His Disciples I. Observe, first, what a comforting thing it is to know that Christ would sooner work a miracle to restrain the enemies of His servants, than leave those s...
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...
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; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all fl...
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...
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...
EXCEPT THE MAN WHO WAS BOUND TO BE LOST. Judas had made himself fit the prediction (Psalms 41:9)....
_I pray for them_ THE KEEPING OF THE SAINTS I. THE PERSONS. “Those whom Thou hast given Me.” The disciples in contrast 1. With the world (John 17:9). Christ meant, not that men, as men, were exclude...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 17:12 YOUR NAME. Jesus came in God the Father’s authority and represented the Father’s entire character. SON OF DESTRUCTION. Judas....
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...
_When I was with them I kept them in Thy Name, i.e._ "by Thy power, by Thy authority, as Thy messenger to them." So S. Cyril. For they, knowing that I was sent by Thee, willingly and boldly cleaved to...
_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 John 2:19; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; Acts 1:16; Acts 1:25; Hebrews 2:13;
In the world. Omit. I kept [ε τ η ρ ο υ ν]. Imperfect tense. I continued to keep. The I is emphatic : I kept them, now do Thou keep them. I kept [ε τ η ρ ο υ ν]. Rev., rightly, I guarded. The A. V....
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...
THE CHRISTIAN AND THE WORLD John 17:6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We face a sad spectacle in the history of the church at this time. The world has become so entrenched in the life and activities of the chur...
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 unchangeab...
Observe, here, 1. That those which shall be saved, are given unto Christ, and committed to his care and trust. 2. That none of those that are given unto Christ, as his charge, and committed to his ca...