Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 17:11
Keep them through thy name — Thy power, mercy, wisdom, that they may be one — with us and with each other; one body, separate from the world: as we are — By resemblance to us, though not equality.
Keep them through thy name — Thy power, mercy, wisdom, that they may be one — with us and with each other; one body, separate from the world: as we are — By resemblance to us, though not equality.
JOHN 17:11 w|- de,dwka,j moi {B} The reading that best accounts for the origin of the others has also the strongest attestation: the difficulty of w|- (which is read by î60vid, 66vid a A B C K L W D...
Verse John 17:11. _I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD_] I am just going to leave the world, and therefore they shall stand in need of peculiar assistance and support. They have need of all the influence of my...
I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD - I have finished my work among men, and am about to leave the world. See John 17:4. THESE ARE IN THE WORLD - They will be among wicked men and malignant foes. They will be...
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...
AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD, BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD. He now goes to the Father; these are left behind to preach the gospel, establish his kingdom, manifest his glory. Hence, he pleads that he may "_ k...
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...
NOW... NO MORE. no longer. Greek. _ouketi._ TO. unto. Greek. _pros._ App-104. HOLY FATHER. When speaking of Himself, the Lord says, "Father", verses: John 1:5; John 1:21; John 1:24. when speaking of...
_but these_ Rather, AND _these_. The coupling of the sentences is solemnly simple; -And now … and these … and I." _Holy Father_ The expression occurs nowhere else; but comp. Rev 6:10; 1 John 2:20; and...
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...
11, 12. ὮΙ for οὕς: οὕς in John 17:12 caused the omission of ΚΑΊ before ἘΦΎΛΑΞΑ, a colon being placed at σου....
ΠΆΤΕΡ ἍΓΙΕ. The expression occurs here only; but comp. Revelation 6:10; 1 John 2:20 and John 17:25. The epithet agrees with the prayer ἉΓΊΑΣΟΝ αὐτούς ...
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...
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...
ΤΉΡΗΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΤΗΡΈΩ, СМ. СТ. 6. ΈΝ (G1722) в, в местном и instr. значении. Они отмечены и защищены именем Бога (Brown), ΔΈΔΩΚΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ, _см._ John 17:6. ΏΣΙΝ _pra...
AND NOW I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD,— "Having finished the work thou gavest me to do, I am no longer to continue in the world:—_But these are in the world._ My apostles are to continue in the world, to...
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...
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. AND [NOW]...
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...
KEEP THROUGH THINE OWN NAME] RV 'keep them in thy name which thou hast given me,' i.e. keep them in a state of grace defended by that almighty power, which, by Thy gift, I share with Thee. God's 'name...
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: ‘...
AND NOW I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD. — The immediate future is still regarded as present. The words have a special reference to the interval between His death and the day of Pentecost, which would be fo...
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...
καὶ οὐκέτι εἰμὶ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ. The circumstances necessitating the prayer are now stated. Jesus is no longer in the world, already He has bid farewell to it, but the disciples remain in it, exposed with...
_Prayer for the disciples_....
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...
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 (c) one, as we [are]. (c) H...
And now I am no more in the world: that is, I am now leaving the world, as to a corporeal and visible presence: yet St. Augustine takes notice, that Christ saith afterwards, (ver. 13.) these things I...
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...
VER. 11. “ _And I am no more in the world; but they are in the world; and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, them whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are._ ” At the m...
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...
_CHRISTIAN UNITY_ ‘That they may be one.’ John 17:11 The duty of unity is the hardest duty to fulfil. After all the teaching of the centuries the Lord’s Prayer in text has not been fulfilled. Divis...
11._And I am no longer in the world. _He assigns another reason why he prays so earnestly for the disciples, namely, because they will very soon be deprived of his bodily presence, under which they ha...
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-...
AND NOW I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD,.... In the earth; which is no contradiction to his resurrection from the dead, and stay with his disciples for a while; nor to his return to judge the world at the l...
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_. Ver. 11....
_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...
THROUGH THINE OWN NAME; see note to verse John 17:6....
The distinction between the disciples and the world:...
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 ma...
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...
The term WORLD in this verse signifies not the men of the world, nor any particular party of them, (as it often signifies), but the habitable part of the earth. Our Saviour saith he is NO MORE IN THE...
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus The soul dwells in the body, yet is not of the body; and Christians dwell in the world, yet are not of the world.[26] Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians For, says...
John 17:11 G2532 Now G3765 am G1510 (G5748) longer G3765 in G1722 world G2889 but G2532 these...
“And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep those whom you have given me in your name that they may be one even as we are.” Jesus stresses the disci...
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 17:11. AND I AM NO LONGER IN THE WORLD, AND THEY ARE IN THE WORLD, AND I COME TO THEE. One thought rising before the mind of Jesus now deepens His earnestness of entreaty on behalf of His discipl...
AND THESE (κα ουτο or αυτο, they). Note adversative use of κα (= but these).I COME (ερεομα). Futuristic present, "I am coming." Cf. John 13:3; John 14:12; John 17:13. Christ will no longer be visi...
John 17:11 I. The Author and maintainer of Unity. "Holy Father, keep." Unity wherever it exists flows from God. He is the cloud whence the drops of peace distil first upon crowning Hermon, and then 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; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ Jesus is going forth to die, and he kn...
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:_ 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...
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...
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...
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...
BUT THEY ARE IN THE WORLD. "Christ has no hands but our hands, to do his work today." SO THEY MAY BE ONE. See John 17:21....
_And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world_ CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES I. CHRIST IS NO MORE IN THE WORLD. All the purposes for which He came are accomplished. There is no further e...
_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 17:11 I AM NO LONGER IN THE WORLD. See note on 16:28. KEEP THEM. From denying Christ. HOLY FATHER. This is the only time in the NT that
_And now I am no more in the world_ (I shall be soon out of the world), _but these are in the world, and I come to Thee._ I am leaving the world, but they remain in it, to preach the gospel, and there...
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 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 John 3:12;...
I come [ε ρ χ ο μ α ι]. I am coming. Spoken of His departure to the Father. Holy [α γ ι ε]. See on saints, Acts 26:10; also on 1 Peter 1:15. Compare 1 John 2:20, and righteous Father [δ ι κ α ι ε], ve...
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...
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 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....
Here observe, 1. Our Saviour's present condition: I AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD: that is,. shall continue on earth but. small time longer, and then ascend to my Father in heaven. Learn thence, that Jesus...