Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 17:4
I have finished the work — Thus have I glorified thee, laying the foundation of thy kingdom on earth.
I have finished the work — Thus have I glorified thee, laying the foundation of thy kingdom on earth.
Verse John 17:4. _I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE_] Our Lord, considering himself as _already_ sacrificed for the sin of the world, speaks of having _completed_ the work which God had given him to do: and he lo...
HAVE GLORIFIED THEE - In my instructions and life. See his discourses everywhere, the whole tendency of which is to put honor on God. I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK - Compare John 19:30. When he says “I hav...
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...
Jesus prays with full consciousness that the crisis of His earthly career is come. Will His death prove the annihilation of His person and work, or its glorification, the transition to a higher form 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...
HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH. He had done this because he could say, "I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do." In. few hours he would cry from the cross, "It is finished....
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify the Son that the Son may glorify you. Glorify him, just as you gave him authority over...
ON. Greek. _epi._ App-104. EARTH. App-129. I HAVE FINISHED. The texts read "having finished". Compare John 4:34; John 5:36; John 19:30. GAVEST. hast given. TO DO. in order that (Greek. hina,
The Prayer for Himself The Son was sent to give to men eternal life, which consists in the knowledge of God. This work the Son has completed to the glory of the Father, and therefore prays to be glor...
_I have glorified_ Better, I GLORIFIED. In confident anticipation Christ looks backs from the point when all shall be accomplished, and speaks of the whole work of redemption as one act. Our translato...
THE PRAYER FOR HIMSELF The Son was sent to give to men eternal life, which consists in the knowledge of God. This work the Son has completed to the glory of the Father, and therefore prays to be glor...
ΤΕΛΕΙΏΣΑΣ (אABCL) for ἐτελείωσα (D). 4. ἘΔΌΞΑΣΑ. I GLORIFIED _Thee on the earth_, HAVING PERFECTED. In confident anticipation Christ looks back from the point when all shall be accomplished, and speak...
Ver 1. These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you: 2. As you have given him power over all fles...
ΈΔΌΞΑΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ, _см._ John 17:1. Обобщ. _aor._ относится ко всей Его прошлой жизни, в которой Он славил Бога. ΤΕΛΕΙΏΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΤΕΛΕΙΌΩ (G5048) завершать, совершать,...
DISCOURSE: 1709 OUR LORD’S DYING APPEAL TO GOD John 17:4. _I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own s...
I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH, &C.— "I have all along invariably intended and displayed thy glory, in the whole of my doctrine, miracles, and life, and am ready to honour upon earth all thy perfe...
PRAYER FOR HIMSELF _Text: John 17:1-5_ 1 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: 2 even a...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:1-5 The following is an Analysis of the first section of John 17: 1. The Son praying, verse 1. In John 17 the veil is drawn aside, and we are admitted with...
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH: I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU GAVEST ME TO DO - or, keeping to the s...
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...
Our Lord's sinlessness and moral perfection are implied....
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 HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH: I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK... — Better, _I glorified Thee on earth: I finished the work..._ The former sentence is.explained by the latter. God was glorified in the c...
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...
ἐγώ σε … ποιήσω. This is a fresh ground for the petition of John 17:1 renewed in John 17:5 : “glorify Thou me”. The ground is “I have glorified Thee on the earth; having finished perfectly accomplishe...
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...
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...
1. The prayer of Jesus has three parts: the first, a prayer for Himself, John 17:1-5; the second, a prayer for His disciples, John 17:9-19; and the third, a prayer for all subsequent believers, John 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 glorified thee on the earth; I have accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do._ 5. _And now, Father, glorify thou me, with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the...
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: (2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, tha...
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...
_THE WORK OF LIFE_ ‘I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.’ John 17:4 If we might each choose his own epitaph, who would not choose this if he coul...
4._I have glorified thee. _His reason for saying this is, that God had been made known to the world both by the doctrine of Christ, and by his miracles; and the _glory _of God is, when we know what he...
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 HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH,.... This is made use of as a reason and argument, why the Father should glorify him: Christ glorified his Father personally, as he held forth and expressed the glor...
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Ver. 4. _That thou gavest me to do_] Our Saviour counts his work a gift; so should we take it for a favour, th...
_I have glorified thee on earth_ My doctrine, example, and miracles have manifested thy glory here on earth. _I have finished the work thou gavest me to do_ I have almost finished the work which I und...
GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH; by doing in all things what he was commissioned of the Father to do. FINISHED THE WORK; the work to which he was appointed....
I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH; I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU GAVEST ME TO DO....
CHRIST'S GREAT SACERDOTAL PRAYER. Christ prays for His own glorification:...
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...
I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH; by preaching the gospel, by living up to the rule of thy law, by the miracles which I have wrought. God could not be glorified by Christ, by the addition of any thi...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians And He says of Himself to the Father, "I have," says He, "glorified Thee upon the earth; I have finished the work which, Thou gavest Me; I have manifested Thy nam...
John 17:4 I G1473 glorified G1392 (G5656) You G4571 on G1909 earth G1093 finished G5048 (G5656) work...
“I glorified you on the earth having accomplished the work which you have given me to do, and now, Oh Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.” J...
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...
JESUS' DEDICATION OF HIMSELF (JOHN 17:1). In opening His final discourse in John 13:31 Jesus had said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. And God will glorify Him in Himsel...
John 17:4. I GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH, HAVING ACCOMPLISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME TO DO. The first petition of Jesus in this prayer had been ‘glorify Thy Son.' That petition is now to be...
I GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH (εγω σε εδοξασα επ της γης). Verse John 17:3 is parenthetical and so verse John 17:4 goes on after verse John 17:2. He had prayed for further glorification.HAVING ACCO...
John 17:4 I do not think that here in this text our Lord intended to refer to the final and completing act the blood-shedding which was remission. I believe He reviewed His life the subjection, the pa...
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...
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...
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 SHOWED YOUR GLORY ON EARTH. There was no longer any reason for him to stay on earth. He had finished the work leading up to the Cross....
_These words spake Jesus_ CHRIST’S PRAYER FOR HIMSELF I. THE CIRCUMSTANCE. 1. The place--probably the west bank of the Kidron; but to a devout soul any spot serves as an oratory (John 4:21; 1 Timot...
_I have glorified Thee on the earth_ THE GLORIFICATION OF GOD The words may be considered I. IN A MEDIATORY SENSE; so they are proper to Christ; 1. “I have glorified Thee.” Christ glorified God ...
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 have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do_. The work of preaching and redemption, for which Thou didst send Me into the world, I shall in a few hours con...
_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 4:7; Acts 20:24; John 12:28; John 13:31; John 13:32;...
I have glorified - I have finished [ε δ ο ξ α σ α - ε τ ε λ ε ι ω σ α]. The best texts read, teleiwsav, having finished; the participle defining the manner in which He had glorified the Father upon ea...
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...
Learn hence, that the whole life of Christ, while here on earth, was. glorifying of his Father; he glorified his Father by the doctrine which he preached; he glorified his Father by the miracles which...