Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
John 17:7
They have known - They have been taught that and have believed it.
Hast given me - This refers, doubtless, to the doctrine of Christ, John 17:8. They are assured that all my instructions are of God.
They have known - They have been taught that and have believed it.
Hast given me - This refers, doubtless, to the doctrine of Christ, John 17:8. They are assured that all my instructions are of God.
JOHN 17:7 e;gnwkan Although there is impressive support for the first person singular (e;gnwn, a ita, b, c, e, ff2, q syrs, p, hmg, pal copsa, ach goth pers; e;gnwka, W 7 118 138* 579 1188 2145*...
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...
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...
THAT ALL THINGS... GIVEN ME ARE OF THEE. The Lord had taught with great emphasis that he and the Father were one, and that his words and works were of the Father. This the apostles were now learning....
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
"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...
OF. from. Greek. _para._ App-104....
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....
_they have known_ Rather, _they_ KNOW: literally, -they have recognised, come to know." Comp. John 5:42; John 6:69; John 8:52; John 8:55;...
ἜΓΝΩΚΑΝ. _They have recognised_ and therefore KNOW (John 5:42; John 6:69; John 8:52; John 8:55;...
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...
ΈΓΝΩΚΑΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, ΔΈΔΩΚΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ, _см._ John 17:6....
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...
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN THAT ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER THOU HAST GIVEN ME ARE OF THEE....
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...
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: ‘...
NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN... — Better, _Now they do know._ The word means “They have come to know, and do know.” (Comp. Note on John 16:30.) This is the result of their spiritual training — in its fulness,...
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 the result of this keeping of God's truth, νῦν ἔγνωκαν … ἐστιν, “they have now” in presence of this final revelation “known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given me are from Thee”. The object...
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...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Quia omnia quæ dedisti mihi, abs te sunt. That is, says St. Augustine, (tract. 106. p. 767.) cognoverunt, quia abs te sum, &c....
_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...
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 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...
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...
7._Now they have known. _Here our Lord expresses what is the chief part in faith, which consists in our believing in Christ in such a manner, that faith does not rest satisfied with beholding the fles...
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-...
NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN,.... The Syriac version reads it ידעת, "I have known"; and so the Persic and Gothic versions, contrary to most copies and other versions, which read, as we render, "they have known...
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. Ver. 7. _Now they have known, &c._] That the gospel is a plot of God's own contriving, and no device of man, as that _Ev...
_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...
ALL THINGS-ARE OF THEE; they understood the truth, which the Saviour had so often maintained against his persecutors, that all his mighty works were wrought not merely of himself, but in accordance wi...
NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN THAT ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER THOU HAST GIVEN ME ARE OF THEE....
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...
They have thus far made proficiency in the doctrine which I have taught them; that though the Pharisees say, that I _cast out devils by Beelzebub the prince of devils, _ yet they believe, and are pers...
John 17:7 Now G3568 known G1097 (G5758) that G3754 things G3956 which G3745 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 17:7. NOW HAVE THEY LEARNED TO KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER THOU GAVEST ME ARE FROM THEE. These words do more than state that the disciples knew this fact. They include a far deeper meaning, i...
NOW THEY KNOW (νυν εγνωκαν). Perfect active indicative third plural like τετηρηκαν above. They have come to know, not as fully as they felt (John 16:30), and yet in a real sense....
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...
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;_ 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 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...
_Now they have known that all things Thou hast given Me are of Thee._ All that I have said or done originally came from Thee, My teaching and My law....
_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...
John 10:29; John 10:30; John 12:49; John 12:50; John 14:20;...
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...
Now they know that all things — Which I have done and spoken, are of thee — And consequently right and true....
Observe here, 1. The faithfulness of Christ in revealing the whole will of his Father to his disciples. 2. The proficiency of his disciples in the school of Christ: They knew all the things which Chr...