Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
John 17:23
Increasing union of views, affections, and efforts among the disciples of Christ, will furnish increasing evidence of the divine excellence of his religion, and lead increasing numbers to embrace it.
Increasing union of views, affections, and efforts among the disciples of Christ, will furnish increasing evidence of the divine excellence of his religion, and lead increasing numbers to embrace it.
JOHN 17:23 hvga,phsaj (1) {A} The Western reading, hvga,phsa (D 0141 it syr), arose either through scribal inattentiveness or as a deliberate accommodation to John 15:9....
Verse 23. _THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW_] That the Jewish people first, and secondly the Gentiles, may acknowledge me as the _true Messiah_, and be saved unto life eternal....
MAY BE MADE PERFECT IN ONE - That their union may be complete. That there may be no jars, discords, or contentions. A machine is perfect or complete when it has all its parts and is in good order when...
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...
The prayer now passes to those whom they shall make disciples, the fruits of their missionary labours. For them He asks unity, in the Father and the Son, corresponding to the unity of Father and Son....
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...
THE GLORY.. THOU GAVEST ME. HAVE GIVEN THEM. God gave Christ the glory of Sonship and this resulted in their unity. So Christ gives to his disciples the glory of becoming the sons of God (John 1:12;...
"And I have given them the glory which you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I am in them, and you are in me, so that their unity with us and with each other may stand consummated and compl...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
MADE PERFECT. perfected. Greek. _teleioo._ Same word as "finish" in John 17:4. IN. into. Greek. _eis._ App-104. AND. All omit. HAST SENT. didst send. HAST LOVED. lovedst. LOVED. Greek. _agapao._...
_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....
23. The basis of the unity of believers is their union with Christ and through Him with the Father: in this way they are _perfected_ into _one_, completed and made one. It is in the unity that the com...
THE PRAYER FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH Christ having prayed first for the _Author_ of salvation, and then for the _instruments_ of the work, now prays for the _objects_ of it. The limitation stated in John...
22–24. Having prayed for them with a view to their unity, Jesus passes to His final petition, a share in His glory for His disciples. In leading up to this He states what He Himself has done for them:...
Ver 20. Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21. That they all may be one; as you, Father, is in me, and I in You, that they also may be one i...
ΏΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ, _см._ John 17:11. ΤΕΤΕΛΕΙΩΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΤΕΛΕΙΌΩ, _см._ John 17:4, завершать, совершать, доводить до совершенства (BAGD). Используется в перифр. констр...
AND THE GLORY WHICH THOU GAVEST ME, &C.— "Moreover, the glory of inspiration, of a divine mission, and of the power of miracles to confirm that mission, which thou gavest unto me, I have bestowed on m...
PRAYER FOR ALL BELIEVERS _Text: John 17:20-26_ 20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:20-26 The following is an Analysis of the dosing section of John 17:— We have now arrived at the dosing section of this wonderful Prayer, a section which sup...
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. I IN THEM, AND THOU IN ME, THAT THE...
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...
THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW] The whole world will be converted when the Church of Christ presents the spectacle of perfect love and visible unity. Divisions hinder the work of Christ, unity advances it....
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: ‘...
I IN THEM, AND THOU IN ME. — These words are best regarded as a parenthesis more explicitly setting forth the thought of the union of the Father, the Son, and the believer. The thought is continued fr...
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 future believers_....
ἵνα ὦσιν ἕν of John 17:22 becomes in John 17:23 ἵνα ὦσι τετελειωμένοι εἰς ἕν, “that they may be perfected into one”. They are perfected by being wrought to a Divine unity. The work of Christ is accomp...
THE MASTER'S COMMISSION John 17:18-26 In John 10:36 we are told that the Father consecrated our Redeemer to the great work by which He had brought nigh them that were far off, Ephesians 2:13. What a...
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...
Jesus prays for the union of believers with Himself and among themselves. ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 20-26. 1. John 17:20-24. The prayer now turns to the great company of believers...
“ _And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one_, 23, _I in them and thou in me; that their unity may be perfect, that the world may know that thou ha...
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...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in u...
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...
23._I in them, and thou in me; _for he intends to teach that in him dwells all fullness of blessings, and that what was concealed in God is now manifested in him, that he may impart it to his people,...
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 IN THEM,.... Christ is in his saints; not as he is in all the world, being the omnipresent God; or as he is in every man, communicating the light of nature as Creator; or as he is in the human natur...
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Ver. 23. _I in them, and thou in me_]...
_Neither pray I for these alone_ I do not make my apostles the only subjects of this my last prayer; I pray likewise for all such as shall by their word, whether preached or written, be brought to _be...
I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me....
Christ prays for the future believers:...
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...
20-23 Our Lord especially prayed, that all believers might be as one body under one head, animated by one soul, by their union with Christ and the Father in him, through the Holy Spirit dwelling in t...
OLBGrk; I IN THEM; not only as my Divine nature is united to their flesh, but as I have made them partakers of my Spirit, and of the Divine nature; as I have loved them with a special and peculiar lov...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I and again, "And hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me? "[12]...
John 17:23 I G1473 in G1722 them G846 and G2532 You G4771 in G1722 Me G1698 that G2443 be...
“And the glory which you have given me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one. I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent...
JESUS DEDICATES ALL WHO WILL RESPOND TO HIM THROUGH HIS APOSTLES (JOHN 17:20). Jesus was now looking far ahead, beyond His own group of disciples, as He began to pray for all who would become believer...
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 17:23. I IN THEM, AND THOU IN ME, THAT THEY MAY BE PERFECTED INTO ONE. That is: not only that this oneness may be readied, but that, in its being so, the last step to be taken with believers may...
THAT THEY MAY BE PERFECTED INTO ONE (ινα ωσιν τετελειωμενο εις εν). Purpose clause again with ινα (nineteen times in this prayer, this the fifteenth) with the periphrastic perfect passive subjuncti...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _ WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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...
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, 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; 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; glorify thy Son; that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ Christ's great intercessory prayer beg...
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...
THE SAME GLORY YOU GAVE ME. The work of Christ is accomplished when men are ONE in Christ. _See_ John 1:12; 1 John 3:1; Galatians 3:26-29. JUST AS YOU AND I ARE ONE. All who are guided by the _one_ Sp...
_I in them and Thou in Me_ THE THREE UNIONS There are three most admirable unions proposed to our faith in the Christian religion. The Unity of Essence, in the Trinity; the Unity of Person, in Jesus...
_The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them_ THE CHURCH’S UNITY AND ITS INFLUENCE I. THE GIFT WHICH CHRIST BESTOWS ON HIS disciples. 1. What was the glory which Christ received? A glory belon...
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 in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and has loved them as Thou hast loved Me._ That their union may be consummated and...
_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 1:30; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:12; 1 John 4:19;...
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...
Observe here, 1. That as the Father is in Christ, so is Christ, in believers, and they in him: the Father is in Christ in respect of his divine nature, essence, and attributes; and Christ is in believ...