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John 17:9
I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine.
I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine.
Verse John 17:9. _I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD_] I am not yet come to that part of my intercession: see John 17:20. I am now wholly employed for my disciples, that they may be properly qualified to preac...
I PRAY FOR THEM - In view of their dangers and trials, he sought the protection and blessing of God on them. His prayer was always answered. NOT FOR THE WORLD - The term world here, as elsewhere, refe...
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...
PRAY FOR THEM. The apostles. The prayer from verse. to verse 19 is for these. I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD. Not at this time; he came into the world to save it, and we are not to conclude that he would...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
"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...
PRAY. ask. Greek. _erotao._ App-134. The Lord uses this word eight times in these Chapter s: John 14:16; John 16:5; John 16:23; John 16:26;...
_I pray for them_, &c. Literally, _I am praying concerning them; concerning the world I am not praying, but concerning them whom_, &c. -I," -them," and -the world" are emphatic. -For them who have bel...
The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
THE PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES...
9. ‘For them who have believed I, who have laboured to bring them to this belief, am praying; for the world I am not praying.’ Ἐγώ, αὐτῶν and κόσμου are emphatic. ΠΕΡΊ indicates the subject of the pet...
9–19. The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
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...
ΔΈΔΩΚΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ, _см._ John 17:6....
DISCOURSE: 1710 THE OBJECTS OF OUR LORD’S INTERCESSION John 17:9. _I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and th...
I PRAY FOR THEM, &C.— The persons here prayed for, are not regenerate men in general, in opposition to the unregenerate, who are often called the _world,_ but those good men in particular who were giv...
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...
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. I PRAY FOR THEM - not here as apostles, but as the following words show, as the representative...
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...
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...
I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD] rather, 'I am not now praying for the world.' Jesus prays for the world in John 17:20, especially in John 17:21, and enjoins others to do so, Matthew 5:44, etc. That Christ p...
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: ‘...
I PRAY FOR THEM: I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD. — Better, _I am praying for them: I am not praying for the world._ Both pronouns are emphatic. “I who have during my work on earth taught them;” “they who ha...
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_....
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...
I pray for them, I pray not for the world. That is, now in this prayer, when I desire special graces and assistances for them, to discharge their duty, as my apostles; yet we must take notice, that (v...
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...
“ _I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, because they are thine._ 10. _And all that which is mine is thine, and that which is thine is mine_, _and I am glor...
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...
9._I pray for them_. Hitherto Christ has brought forward what might procure for the disciples favor with the Father. He now forms the prayer itself, in which he shows that he asks nothing but what is...
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-...
I PRAY FOR THEM,.... This is to be understood of Christ, not as God; for as such he is the object of prayer; nor need he pray to any other; nor is there any superior to him under that consideration to...
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. Ver. 9. _I pray for them_] Christ hath left us this prayer here recorded, as a pattern of that in...
_I pray for them_ Who have attended me as my apostles. These only he prays for here, as appears from John 17:12, where he says, he had kept all the persons he was praying for in the faith and practice...
I PRAY FOR THEM; his disciples. NOT FOR THE WORLD; the wicked. He did not at this time pray for his enemies, but for his friends....
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...
THE WORLD seemeth here to signify all mankind, for whom Christ in this place doth not pray; though some interpret it of reprobates, others of unbelievers. Christ afterward prays for the world, 1 THESS...
John 17:9 I G1473 pray G2065 (G5719) for G4012 them G846 not G3756 pray G2065 (G5719) for...
“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. And all things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.” Jesus'...
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 17:9. I ASK CONCERNING THEM; I ASK NOT CONCERNING THE WORLD, BUT CONCERNING THEM WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME. In the preceding verses the mind of Jesus has been filled with the thought of the positi...
I PRAY (εγω ερωτω). Request, not question, as in John 16:23.NOT FOR THE WORLD (ου περ του κοσμου). Now at this point in the prayer Christ means. In verse John 17:19 Jesus does pray for the world ...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (John 17:14); (John 17:16); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _
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...
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:_ 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...
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; 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...
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 PRAY FOR THEM. His prayer from John 17:9-19_ is_ for the apostles. I DO NOT PRAY FOR THE WORLD. He sets the world aside for the present, to pray specifically for his apostles. _Luther_ says: "To pra...
_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 17:9 THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME are those who have believed or who would come to believe in Christ (see vv. John 17:2,...
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...
_I pray for them_ (that Thou wouldst make them grow in the knowledge and love of Thee and Me): _I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. And_ hence heretics...
_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 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 5:19; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:24;...
I pray [ε ρ ω τ ω]. More strictly, I make request. See on 16 23. The I is emphatic, as throughout the prayer....
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...
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 John 17:21, John 17:23, that they may believe — That they may know God h...
Did Jesus ever pray for unbelievers? PROBLEM: Jesus said here, “I pray for them [the disciples]. I do not pray for the world.” But elsewhere Jesus prayed for unbelievers, even those who crucified Him...
That is, "I now offer up. prayer particularly, 1. For my apostles, designed for so great. work as the preaching of the everlasting gospel to the obstinate Jews and obdurate Gentiles. 2.. intercede als...