John 17:23

I in them, and thou in me And therefore, -Thou in them and they in Thee."

made perfect in one Literally, perfected into one; i.e. completed and made one. In the unity the completeness consists. The expression -into one" occurs elsewhere only John 11:52 (comp. 1 John 5:8). For -perfected" comp. 1Jn 2:5; 1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:17-18.

may know Or, come to know, recognise (John 17:3) gradually and in time. This is the second effect of the unity of Christians, more perfect than the first. The first (John 17:21) was that the world is induced to believethat God sent Christ; the second is that the world comes to knowthat God sent Christ, and moreover that He loved the world even as He loved Christ. -Hast sent" and -hast loved" in both places are literally didst send and didst love; but in the case of the second of the two verbs the English perfect is perhaps the best representative of the Greek aorist. The second -Thou" in the verse and the last -Me" are emphatic.