Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 17:13
In the world — That is, before I leave the world. My joy — The joy I feel at going to the Father.
In the world — That is, before I leave the world. My joy — The joy I feel at going to the Father.
Verse John 17:13. _MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEMSELVES._] John 15:11, John 15:11....
MY JOY FULFILLED ... - See the notes at John 15:11. The expression “my joy here probably refers to the joy of the apostles respecting the Saviour - the joy which would result from his resurrection, as...
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...
SPEAK THESE THINGS IN THE WORLD. I am now coming to thee, and about to leave the world, but before. leave it,. speak these things in order that my joy, the joy. feel over my completed work and return...
"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)...
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...
_And now come I_ Better, BUT _now I come_. The conjunction introduces a contrast. Hitherto Christ has been with them watching over them; -but now" it is so no longer. _that they might_ Better, _that...
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...
ΝΥ͂Ν ΔΈ. BUT _now_. Hitherto He has been with them to guard them, but now He is going away: and He is praying thus aloud in order that His words may comfort them when they remember that before He went...
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...
ΈΧΩΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΠΕΠΛΗΡΩΜΈΝΗΝ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ, _см._ John 17:12. _Perf._ указывает, что действие завершено....
AND NOW COME I TO THEE;— "I am now about to return to thee, having finished my work; yet, before I leave the world, I offer this prayer in behalf of my apostles, with this intention, that, being heard...
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 17:13-19 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: — One chief reason why the Lord Jesus uttered audibly the wonderful prayer record...
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. AND NOW, [ nun (G3568 ) de (G1161 ), 'BUT NOW'] COME I TO THEE. He had just said...
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...
MY JOY] i.e. the joy which I derive from loving communion with the Father, as in John 15:11 : see 1 John 1:4....
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 COME TO THEE. — Comp. the first words of John 17:12, with which these are in contrast. AND THESE THINGS I SPEAK IN THE WORLD. — The thought is that He is about to leave them, and that He utt...
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_....
As He Himself goes to the Father, He utters this petition aloud, and while yet with the disciples ταῦτα λαλῶ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ that they might recognise that the power of God was engaged for their protectio...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
13._And these things I speak in the world. _Here Christ shows that the reason why he was so earnest in praying for his disciples was, not that he was anxious about their future condition, but rather t...
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 COME I TO THEE,.... As in John 17:11, which he repeats as a very great happiness to himself, and with much pleasure and joy, but not without concern for those he was parting from: AND THESE T...
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. Ver. 13. _And these things I speak in the world_] Not for his own or his Father's s...
_These things I speak in the world_ That is, before I leave the world; _that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves_ I offer this prayer in behalf of my apostles, with this intention; that bei...
MY JOY; see note to chap John 15:11. FULFILLED; made perfect and lasting....
Keeping the believers in God's name:...
AND NOW I COME TO THEE; AND THESE THINGS I SPEAK IN THE WORLD, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEMSELVES. As long as Jesus was present in the world, in the flesh, so long He personally tende...
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...
He speaketh still in the present tense. These words were not fulfilled six weeks after this, for he conversed with his disciples forty days after his resurrection, ACTS 1:3; but Christ was now shortly...
John 17:13 But G1161 now G3568 come G2064 (G5736) to G4314 You G4571 and G2532 things G5023 speak...
“But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they are not of the...
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 17:13. BUT NOW I COME TO THEE. These words are to be connected with what follows rather than with what precedes. The thought of His immediate departure leads Jesus to pray that His disciples may...
THAT THEY MAY HAVE MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEMSELVES (ινα εχωσιν την χαραν την εμην πεπληρωμενην εν εαυτοις). Purpose clause with present active subjunctive of εχω, "that they may keep on having Christ...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_These things I speak in the world, that they might have My Joy fulfilled in themselves_ CHRIST’S PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES’ JOY I. CHRIST IS THE AUTHOR AND ORIGINAL OF THE JOY OF HIS PEOPLE. 1. As H...
_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...
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...
_And now come I to Thee_ (1 shall soon come at My ascension); _and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves_. I speak of these things, in order that the A...
_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 1:4; 2 John 1:12; Acts 13:52; Galatians 5:22; Hebrews 12:2;...
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...
In these words our Saviour declares the great reason why he did at this time so publicly and solemnly pray for his disciples; it was to fill them with joy and comfort, that their joy might not be dimi...