Through thy truth; by giving them right views of truth, and leading them to obey it. As divine truth is the great means of sanctification, the more clearly it is understood and the more faithfully it is obeyed, the more holy men will be, the more lovely will be their character, and the greater their usefulness and enjoyment.
Verse John 17:17. _SANCTIFY THEM_] αγιασον, from α, _negative_, and γη, _the earth_. This word has _two_ meanings: 1. It signifies to _consecrate_, to _separate_ from _earth_ and _common use_, and to...
SANCTIFY THEM - This word means to render pure, or to cleanse from sins, 1Th 5:23; 1 Corinthians 6:11. Sanctification in the heart of a Christian is progressive. It consists in his becoming more like...
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...
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...
SANCTIFY THEM BY THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH. To sanctify is to render holy, or to consecrate. Those sanctified are saints. The means of canonization is not. Pope, but the truth, and lest some should...
"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...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
SANCTIFY. Hallow. Greek. _hagiam._ Separation is the idea of the word "holy". See note on Exodus 3:5. THY. All the texts read "the". TRUTH. The truth is the great separating force. Compare Matthew 1...
The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
_Sanctify_ Or, CONSECRATE. The word expresses God's destination of them for their work and His endowment of them with the powers necessary for their work. The word is used of God's consecration of Jer...
ἉΓΊΑΣΟΝ. _Sanctify_ or CONSECRATE. It expresses God’s destination of them for their work and His endowment of them with the powers necessary for their work. The word is used of God’s consecration of J...
9–19. The intercession for the disciples based on their need....
THE PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES...
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...
ΆΓΊΑΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΆΓΙΆΖΩ (G37) освящать, выделять человека или вещь во имя Бога и посвящать Ему как нечто священное (Hoskyns). _Aor. imper._ может предполагать начало действия. Очевидно,...
THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD,— "It is with great pleasure that I reflect on their being separated from the world, both in principles and practice, and that in this respect they so nearly resemble me. Hen...
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...
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH, [ en (G1722 ), OR 'IN'] THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH. Principles of vast importance are here expressed. Observe, first, th...
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...
17:17 word (b-7) _ Logos_ . the word of God in testimony, see 1 Corinthians 1:5 , distinct from _ Rhema_ , the divine communications, ver. 8....
SANCTIFY THEM (RM 'consecrate them') THROUGH THY TRUTH (RV 'in the truth')] Consecrate them to their apostolic office, endowing them also with divine illumination and wisdom for their work: cp. Exodus...
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: ‘...
SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH. — Better, _in Thy truth._ Truth was the sphere in which their sanctification was to take place. They had through Christ received the Father’s word, which was truth, an...
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_....
But besides this negative qualification for representing Christ, they must possess also a positive equipment, ἁγίασον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ σου. “Consecrate them by thy truth.” ἁγιάζω is to render sacr...
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...
(f) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (f) That is, make them holy: and that thing is said to be holy which is dedicated to God and belongs to him alone....
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...
“ _They are not of the world, as I am not of the world._ 17. _Sanctify them by the truth;thy word is truth._ ” Joh 17:16 is the transition from the first petition to the second. Jesus has introduced t...
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 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...
_CHRISTIAN SANCTITY_ ‘Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.’ John 17:17 This is emphatically the Lord’s own prayer, the prayer which He Himself alone employed. It may serve as a model...
17._Sanctify them by thy truth. _This _sanctification _includes the kingdom of God and his righteousness; that is, when God renews us by his Spirit, and confirms in us the grace of renewal, and contin...
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-...
SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH,.... The Syriac version introduces this petition, with the appellation אבא, "Abba, Father": and the sanctification prayed for regards the apostles, either as ministers...
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Ver. 17. _Sanctify them by thy truth_] Affect their hearts therewith, that they may the better affect others; speaking _a corde ad cor, _ from the...
_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...
SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH; THY WORD IS TRUTH....
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...
17-19 Christ next prayed for the disciples, that they might not only be kept from evil, but made good. It is the prayer of Jesus for all that are his, that they may be made holy. Even disciples must...
It is doubted amongst interpreters, whether sanctifying in this place signifieth the consecrating, deputing, or setting the apostles apart, and preparing them for the work of the ministry in which the...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III These, then, who are disgusting even to the heathen poets for their fashions, how shall they not be rejected by the truth?[8] Constitutions of the Holy...
John 17:17 Sanctify G37 (G5657) them G846 by G1722 Your G4675 truth G225 Your G4674 word G3056 is...
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 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...
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.” By following Jesus the disciples have removed themselves from the world system and the worl...
John 17:17. CONSECRATE THEM IN THE TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH. The word here rendered ‘Consecrate' is constantly used in the Greek translation of the Old Testament to express the entire dedication and c...
SANCTIFY (αγιασον). First aorist active imperative of αγιαζω. To consecrate or set apart persons or things to God. See Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:1; Exodus 29:36;...
John 17:16 Christian Separation from the World I. Its nature. The unworldliness of Christ is our model. The separating line which marked His life from the world's life is the line which is to mark o...
John 17:17 I. Revelation, or, as our Lord terms it solemnly, the truth, sanctifies us first of all by putting before us an ideal of sanctity. The man of action, like the artist, needs an ideal. It is,...
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 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...
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...
DEDICATE THEM TO YOURSELF. [SANCTIFY = to chose, set apart, dedicate, make holy.] Truth is the means; God's word is truth. Compare 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:13....
_Sanctify them through Thy truth._ THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE SAINT’S I. AN OBJECT DEAR TO CHRIST. 1. He prayed for this on earth. Prayer is always the sign of earnest desire for another’s good: how...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 17:17 SANCTIFY THEM. The sanctification of Christians is a lifelong process. It involves separation from evil and growth in moral purity in attitudes, thoughts, and actions. This occ...
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...
_Sanctify them through Thy truth._ This signifies not the beginning of sanctification, but its progress and perfection (Rev. xxi.) Confirm and perfect them in holiness; pour into them by the Holy Spir...
_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 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 1:23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Samuel 7:28;...
Sanctify [α γ ι α σ ο ν]. Constantly used in the Septuagint to express the entire dedication and consecration of both persons and things to God. See Exodus 29:1; Exodus 29:36; Exodus 40:13;...
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...
Sanctify — Consecrate them by the anointing of thy Spirit to their office, and perfect them in holiness, by means of thy word....
Sanctify them, not initially, for so they were sanctified already, but progressively: let them increase more and more in grace and holiness. Learn hence, 1. That such as are already sanctified, must...