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John 17:20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word,
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word,
III. Our Lord's prayer for his Church, and for all who would believe on his name, through the preaching of the apostles and their successors: John 17:20. John 17:1, John 17:1. Verse...
NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE ... - Not for the apostles only, but for all who shall be converted under the preaching of the gospel. They will all need similar grace and be exposed to similar trials....
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...
The prayer now passes to those whom they shall make disciples, the fruits of their missionary labours. For them He asks unity, in the Father and the Son, corresponding to the unity of Father and Son....
NEITHER PRAY. FOR THESE ALONE. We enter upon the third section of the prayer, that for all disciples in every age,. prayer for us, for all who should believe on the Lord through the preaching of the...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
"It is not only for these that I pray, but also for those who are going to believe in their word of testimony to me. And my prayer is that they may all be one, even as you, Father, are in me, and I in...
NEITHER. Not, (Greek. _ou_. App-105). SHALL BELIEVE. All the texts read "believe". BELIEVE ON. App-150. THROUGH. Greek. _dia._ App-104....
The Prayer for the whole Church 20. _Neither pray I for these alone_ More accurately, BUT _not concerning these only do I pray_(see on John 14:16). The limitation stated in John 17:9 is at an end: thr...
THE PRAYER FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH Christ having prayed first for the _Author_ of salvation, and then for the _instruments_ of the work, now prays for the _objects_ of it. The limitation stated in John...
ΠΙΣΤΕΥΌΝΤΩΝ (אABCD1) for πιστευσόντων (alteration to what seemed more in harmony with facts). 20. ΠΙΣΤΕΥΌΝΤΩΝ. Present: the future body of believers is regarded by anticipation as already in existenc...
Ver 20. Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21. That they all may be one; as you, Father, is in me, and I in You, that they also may be one i...
ΠΙΣΤΕΥΌΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) верить. _Praes. part._ подчеркивает длительный признак....
DISCOURSE: 1714 THE IMPORTANCE OF UNION AMONG CHRISTIANS John 17:20. _Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou...
NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE,— "I do not make my apostles the only subjects of this my last prayer; but I pray also for all those who shall be converted by my apostles; intreating for them the graci...
PRAYER FOR ALL BELIEVERS _Text: John 17:20-26_ 20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:20-26 The following is an Analysis of the dosing section of John 17:— We have now arrived at the dosing section of this wonderful Prayer, a section which sup...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE, [ Ou (G3756) peri (G4012) toutoon (G5130) de ...
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...
17:20 on (d-15) _ Eis_ . see Note, 2 Timothy 1:12 ....
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: ‘...
NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE. — Comp. Note on John 17:9. The thought of the work to which the Apostles are to be consecrated and sent leads on to the wider thought of the Church which shall believe...
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 future believers_....
Οὐ περὶ τούτων δὲ ἐρωτῶ μόνον … The consecration of the disciples and His sending them forth naturally suggests the enlargement of the Church and of His care....
THE MASTER'S COMMISSION John 17:18-26 In John 10:36 we are told that the Father consecrated our Redeemer to the great work by which He had brought nigh them that were far off, Ephesians 2:13. What a...
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...
(6) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (6) Secondly, he offers to God the Father all of his, that is, all those who will believe in him by...
After having prayed for his apostles in particular, he now begins to pray for all that would afterwards, by their preaching, believe in his name; (St. Augustine, tract. 109. in Joan.) and by this he l...
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...
“ _And it is not for these only that I pray, but for all those who believe on me through their word_, 21, _that they all may be one; that, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, they also may be in...
Jesus prays for the union of believers with Himself and among themselves. ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 20-26. 1. John 17:20-24. The prayer now turns to the great company of believers...
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...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in u...
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...
20._And I ask not for these only. _He now gives a wider range to his prayer, which hitherto had included the apostles alone; for he extends it to all the disciples of the Gospel, so long as there shal...
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-...
NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ALONE,.... Meaning his immediate apostles and disciples, for whose preservation and sanctification he had been particularly praying in John 17:19; and now, that it might not b...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Ver. 20. _Neither pray I for these alone_] Lo here a sure and sweet haven for all believers to have rec...
_Neither pray I for these alone_ I do not make my apostles the only subjects of this my last prayer; I pray likewise for all such as shall by their word, whether preached or written, be brought to _be...
THESE; apostles, or those who were then disciples. WHICH SHALL BELIEVE; all who should become his disciples and followers....
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...
20-23 Our Lord especially prayed, that all believers might be as one body under one head, animated by one soul, by their union with Christ and the Father in him, through the Holy Spirit dwelling in t...
Three things are evident from this verse. 1. That Christ did not pray for any reprobates, not for any that were and should die unbelievers: he prayed before for those who actually did believe; he pra...
Origen de Principiis Book I t this order of the human race has been appointed in order that in the future world, or in ages to come, when there shall be the new heavens and new earth, spoken of by Isa...
John 17:20 not G1161 G3756 pray G2065 (G5719) for G4012 these G5130 alone G3440 but G235 also...
JESUS DEDICATES ALL WHO WILL RESPOND TO HIM THROUGH HIS APOSTLES (JOHN 17:20). Jesus was now looking far ahead, beyond His own group of disciples, as He began to pray for all who would become believer...
“Neither for these only do I pray, but for those also who are believing on me through their word.” ‘I pray'. Literally, the verb means ‘make request'. This encompasses the many believers who had alrea...
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 17:20. BUT NOT CONCERNING THESE ONLY DO I ASK, BUT ALSO CONCERNING THEM WHICH BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH THEIR WORD. From the thought of the disciples whom He was sending forth to carry on His work, J...
THROUGH THEIR WORD (δια του λογου αυτων). Through the agency of conversation and preaching, blessed privilege open to all believers thus to win men to Christ, but an agency sadly limited by the liv...
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;_ That tremendous hour which was the very hinge of history, that hour in which he must suffer...
We will read this evening a portion of two prayers offered by our Divine Lord and Master on that night in which he was betrayed. The first is that memorable intercessory prayer of his recorded in the...
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, thee hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ The hour has come. The most important...
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...
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...
I DO NOT PRAY ONLY FOR THEM. For all who will be disciples down through the future until time ends....
_Neither pray I for these alone, but for those also which shall believe on Me through their word_ SAVING FAITH THROUGH THE WORD I. THE BENEFITS OF CHRIST’S MEDIATION ARE LIMITED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE...
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...
_Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their words._ Up to this point Christ prayed for the Apostles, and for those who were immediately converted by them...
_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...
2 Timothy 1:2; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4; Ephesians 4:11; John 17:6;...
Shall believe [π ι σ τ ε υ σ ο ν τ ω ν]. The best texts read pisteuontwn, the present participle, that believe. The future body of believers is conceived as actually existing. On me through their wor...
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...
For them who will believe — In all ages....
Hitherto our Saviour had been praying for himself and his apostles; now he prays for all persons, both Jews and Gentiles, that should believe on him, throughout the world, by the preaching of the gosp...