Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 17:15
That thou wouldest take them out of the world — Not yet: but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one — Who reigns therein.
That thou wouldest take them out of the world — Not yet: but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one — Who reigns therein.
Verse John 17:15. _THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD_] They must not yet leave the land of Judea: they had not as yet borne their testimony there, concerning Christ crucified and risen ag...
THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD - Though they were going into trials and persecutions, yet Jesus did not pray that they might be removed soon from them. It was better that they should e...
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...
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...
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...
PRAY NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD. The world had hated the Master and was about to slay him, because he was not of the world. So it would hate the apostles, who were not of the w...
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...
FROM. out of. Greek. _ek,_ as in the former clause. the evil. the evil one. See on Matthew 6:13. Compare 1 John 5:19. Three things the Lord requested for His disciples: to be kept from the evil one, t...
_I pray not_ See on John 14:16. The nature of the protection is made clear to the listening disciples; not exemption from attack and temptation, but freedom from the permanent influence of the enemy....
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...
9–19. The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
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...
THE PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES...
ἘΚ Τ. ΠΟΝΗΡΟΥ͂. _From the_ EVIL ONE: comp. 1 John 2:13-14; 1 John 3:12, and especially John 5:18-19. The world and the Gospel are regarded as in ceaseless opposition in S. John’s writings, and the evi...
Ver 14. I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15. I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that...
ΑΡΗΣ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΑΊΡΩ (G142) поднимать, забирать. _Conj._ с ΪΝ 1 (G2443) указывает на содержание просьбы, ΤΗΡΉΣΗΣ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΤΗΡΈΩ, _см._ John 17:6. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) указывает...
DISCOURSE: 1711 PRESERVATION FROM SIN MORE DESIRABLE THAN DELIVERANCE FROM AFFLICTION John 17:15. _I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from th...
I PRAY NOT, &C.— "My meaning is not that, on account of these difficulties, John 17:14 thou shouldest _remove them out of the world_ by death; I know that the purposes of thy glory, and their own impr...
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...
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them...
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, etc.] Because, if the Apostles were taken out of the world, they would not be able to convert it. FROM THE EVIL] more correctly rendered by the RV, 'from the evil one.' St. John habitually...
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 NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD. — The thought may naturally have come to their minds that they would be most effectually kept from the hatred and danger of which He had spok...
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 simplest escape from the anger of the world was removal from it, but for this He would not ask: οὐκ ἐρωτῶ ἵνα ἄρῃς αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου. They had a work to do which involved that they should be in...
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...
(4) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. (4) He shows what type of deliverance he means: not that they should be in no danger, b...
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 have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world._ 15. _I ask not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou...
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...
_HOLY KEEPING_ ‘I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.’ John 17:15 But why does Christ leave His people in the world at all? Why...
15._I ask not that thou shouldest take them out of the world. _He shows in what the safety of believers (121) consists; not that they are free from every annoyance, and live in luxury and at their eas...
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 NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEFT OF THE WORLD,.... Either in an unusual manner, by a translation, as Enoch and Elijah were; or by death in its common form, before their time, and purely to be...
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Ver. 15. _That thou take them out of the world_] Many godly men, weary of the world's ill u...
_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...
I PRAY NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, BUT THAT THOU SHOULDEST KEEP THEM FROM THE EVIL....
The Word keeps in faith:...
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 doth not pray that his Father would take up his saints out of this sinful and troublesome world into heaven, because he knew that they were to be of use to him for a time in the world; but he p...
John 17:15 not G3756 pray G2065 (G5719) that G2443 take G142 (G5661) them G846 of G1537 world...
“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 17:15. I ASK NOT THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, BUT THAT THOU SHOULDEST KEEP THEM OUT OF THE EVIL ONE. The disciples are in the world, and Jesus cannot yet pray that they may be...
SHOULDEST TAKE (αρηις). First aorist active subjunctive of αιρω (liquid verb).FROM THE EVIL ONE (εκ του πονηρου). Ablative case with εκ, but can mean the evil man, Satan, or the evil deed. See sam...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
John 17:15 There are two reasons why God does not take His people out of the world, but rather keeps them in it and preserves them from the evil. One reason respects themselves the other, the world....
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...
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...
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...
15-16. TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD. The world is blessed by the Christian being in it. The Christian is blessed by the battle to defeat the world and bring it to Christ. See 1 Peter 1:6-10....
_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...
_I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil_ THE PARTING PRAYER I. THE MOTIVES WHICH PROMPTED THIS PRAYER. 1. To evince the tenderness...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 17:15 KEEP THEM. The central request of the prayer is repeated (see v. John 17:11). FROM THE EVIL ONE. That is, Satan. But the
_I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil_. From the evil (1.) first of guilt, which alone is real evil. (2.) Of punishment, _i.e._, t...
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 Chronicles 4:10; 1 John 5:18; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Timothy 4:8;...
From the evil [τ ο υ π ο ν η ρ ο υ]. Or, the evil one. This rendering is according to John's usage. See 1 John 2:13; 1 John 2:14; 1 John 3:12; 1 John 5:18;...
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. That the wisdom of Christ sees fit to continue his children and people in the world, notwithstanding all the perils and dangers of the world. He has work for them, and they are of use...