Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
John 17:8
ἔγνωσαν … ἐπίστευσαν. They recognised that His mission was Divine (see on John 16:28): they believed that He was sent as the Messiah. They had proof of the one; the other was a matter of faith.
ἔγνωσαν … ἐπίστευσαν. They recognised that His mission was Divine (see on John 16:28): they believed that He was sent as the Messiah. They had proof of the one; the other was a matter of faith.
JOHN 17:8 kai. e;gnwsan It is curious that several witnesses (a* A D W a few minuscules ita, e, q goth) lack the words kai. e;gnwsan. Lagrange suggests _(al loc.)_ that the phrase may have been delet...
Verse John 17:8. _I HAVE GIVEN - THEM THE WORDS_] I have delivered thy doctrine to them, so that they have had a pure teaching immediately from heaven: neither Jewish fables nor fictions of men have b...
THE WORDS - The doctrines. Christ often represented himself as instructed and sent to teach certain great truths to men. Those he taught, and no others. See the notes at John 5:30....
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...
It is a return to former glory for which He prays. Are we to regard this petition as exclusively the author's addition, on the lines of his theology of the pre-existent Logos, or the real expression 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...
THEY HAVE BELIEVED THAT THOU DIDST SEND ME. The life, teaching and miracles of Jesus had wrought profound faith in his disciples, but they were startled and staggered when he told them he was about t...
"I have shown forth your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they realize that everything you gave me comes fr...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
WORDS. Greek. _rhema._ See Mark 9:32. HAVE RECEIVED. received. HAVE KNOWN. knew, SURELY. truly. Greek. _alethos._ Compare App-175. FROM. Greek. _para,_ as in John 17:7. HAVE BELIEVED. believed. A...
_the words_ Or, _the_ SAYINGS (see on John 5:47). This is not the plural of -word" (_logos_) in John 17:6; but the other noun (_rhemata_), the singular of which is not used by S. John. It means the se...
The Prayer for His Disciples 6 8. The basis of the intercession; they have received the revelation given to them. The intercession itself begins John 17:9....
VER 6. I HAVE MANIFESTED YOUR NAME UNTO THE MEN WHICH YOU GAVE ME OUT OF THE WORLD: YOURS THEY WERE, AND YOU GAVE THEM ME; AND THEY HAVE KEPT YOUR WORD. 7. NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN THAT ALL THINGS WHATSOEV...
ΈΔΩΚΑΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ, _см._ John 17:6. ΈΛΑΒΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, принимать, ΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ, _см._ John 17:3. ΈΞΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΈΡ...
NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN, &C.— "These men are fully persuaded, that the commission whereby I act, the doctrine of salvation which I teach, the miracles which I perform, and the authority with which I am cl...
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...
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. FOR I HAVE G...
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...
17:8 words (m-3) _ Rhema_ , the divine communications, see Note, v. 14. known (n-20) Objective knowledge....
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: ‘...
FOR I HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEM THE WORDS WHICH THOU GAVEST ME. — Our Lord explains in this verse how the disciples attained to the knowledge He had spoken of in John 17:7, and lays stress in the first pla...
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_....
ὅτι τὰ ῥήματα … ἀπέστειλας. The result achieved, John 17:7, was due to the fidelity of the messenger, τὰ ῥήματα … δέδωκα αὐτοῖς, and to the receptiveness of those prepared by God, αὐτοὶ ἔλαβον, etc. _...
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...
_Now they have known that all things which thou gavest men, are from thee. That is, says St. Augustine,[3] they now know, and will know more perfectly hereafter, that I myself am from thee, or proceed...
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...
“ _I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world; thine they were, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word._ 7. _Now they have known that all that...
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 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...
8._And they have received them. _He expresses the manner of this knowledge. It is, because they have received the doctrine which he taught them. But that no one may think that his doctrine is human or...
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-...
FOR I HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEM THE WORDS,.... Not commands, but doctrines; and these not the doctrines of men; nor any of the divers and strange doctrines; but what are called in Scripture the doctrine of...
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received _them_, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Ver. 8. _For...
_I have manifested thy name_ All thy attributes; and in particular thy paternal relation to believers; _to the men which thou gavest me out of the world_ The apostles; and so John 17:12. _Thine they w...
THE WORDS WHICH THOU GAVEST ME; the instructions which he was commissioned to impart. The reception of the doctrines revealed, and the performance of the duties required by Jesus Christ, are evidences...
FOR I HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEM THE WORDS WHICH THOU GAVEST ME; AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEM, AND HAVE KNOWN SURELY THAT I CAME OUT FROM THEE, AND THEY HAVE BELIEVED THAT THOU DIDST SEND ME. The prayer of t...
Christ prays for the disciples as such that have kept the Word:...
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...
Our Lord here doth both justify himself, and commend those whom in this former part of his prayer he is commending to his Father. He justifieth himself that he had not delivered any thing to them but...
John 17:8 For G3754 given G1325 (G5758) them G846 words G4487 which G3739 given G1325 (G5758) Me...
“Now they know that all things whatever you have given me are from you. For the words which you gave me I have given them, and they received them and knew of a truth that I came forth from you, and th...
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 17:8. BECAUSE THE WORDS WHICH THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM, AND THEY RECEIVED THEM, AND LEARNED TO KNOW TRULY THAT I CAME FORTH FROM THEE, AND BELIEVED THAT THOU DIDST SEND ME. These words ex...
THE WORDS (τα ρηματα). Plural, each word of God, as in John 3:34, and of Christ (John 5:47; John 6:63; John 6:68), while the singular (τον λογον σου) in verses...
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: As thou hast given him power over all fl...
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;_ 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; 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, 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...
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 have manifested Thy Name unto the men which Thou gavest Me._ CHRIST’S WORK UPON EARTH I. ITS NATURE. The manifestation of the name of God. (John 17:6). In Himself invisible and incomprehensible (J...
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...
_For I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest unto Me, and they have received them, and have known surely that I have come out from Thee, and have believed that Thou didst send Me_. Have a c...
_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 11:23; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 1 John 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:13;...
The words [τ α ρ η μ α τ α]. Compare thy word [λ ο γ ο ν], ver. 6. That signified the gospel message in its entirety. This, the message considered in its constituent parts. See on Luke 1:37. Compare J...
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....
They have received them — By faith....
As if Christ had said, "The message by thee my Father committed to me,. have communicated to them my disciples, and they have received it, and will communicate it from thee to the world; being suffici...