John 17:24

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. FATHER, I WILL, [ theloo (G2309 )] THAT THEY ALSO WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME. [The reading ho (G3588) here, instead of hous (G3739) of the received text-`that that also which Thou hast given Me'-which Tischendorf and Tregelles have adopted, but not Lachmann-is insufficiently supported, as we judge, and to be rejected.] BE WITH ME WHERE I AM; THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY, WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN ME, [ edookas ...

24._Father, I will. To will _is put for _to desire; _(129) for it expresses not a command but a prayer. But it may be understood in two ways; either that _he wills _that the disciples may enjoy his eternal presence, or, that God _may, _at length, receive them into the heavenly kingdom, to which he goes before them. _That they may behold my glory. _Some explain _beholding his glory _to mean, partaking of _the glory _which Christ has. Others explain it to be, to know by the experience of faith what Christ is, and how great is his majesty. For my own part, after carefully weighing the whole matter, I think that Christ speaks of the perfect happiness of believers, as if he had said, that his desire will not be satisfied till they have been received into heaven. In the same manner I explain the Beholding of the _glory. _At that time they saw the _glory _of Christ, just

24-26 Christ, as one with the Father, claimed on behalf of all that had been given to him, and should in due time believe on him, that they should be brought to heaven; and that there the whole company of the redeemed might behold his glory as their beloved Friend and Brother, and therein find happiness. He had declared and would further declare the name or character of God, by his doctrine and his Spirit, that, being one with him, the love of the Father to him might abide with them also. Thus, being joined to Him by one Spirit, they might be filled with all the fulness of God, and enjoy a blessedness of which we can form no right idea in our present state....

Verse 24. _THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY_] That they may _enjoy_ eternal felicity with me in thy kingdom. So the word is used, John 3:3; Matthew 5:8. The design of Christ is, that all who _believe_ should _love_ and _obey, persevere_ unto the end, and be eternally _united_ to himself, and the ever blessed God, in the kingdom of glory....

I WILL - This expression, though it commonly denotes command, is here only expressive of desire. It is used in prayer, and it was not the custom of the Saviour to use language of command when addressing God. It is often used to express strong and earnest desire, or a pressing and importunate wish, such as we are exceedingly anxious should not be denied, Mark 6:25; Mark 10:35; Matthew 12:38; Matthew 15:28. WHERE I AM - In heaven. The Son of God was still in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18. See

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 humanity of the Son of man, and the fact that, in the consciousness of Jesus as the veritable Christ of God, there was actually blended the union of the Divine and human, and a perfect exercise of the prerogatives of both. The illimitable task which writers of the second century must have set themselves to accomplish, if they had by some unknown process conceived such a stupendous idea without any historical basis to support it, has actually been so effected, that a representation is given which adequately conveys such a synthesis. The author of the Gospel does, however, draw rather upon his memory of that night than upon his phi

FATHER, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME,.... Not all the world, but a select number; not apostles only, nor as such; nor believers, or as such, for as such they were not given to Christ; nor as considered in the effectual calling; but as the elect of God, and by that eternal act of his grace; when they were given to Christ as his children, as his spouse, as his church, as the sheep of his hand, as his portion, and to be preserved by him; which is known by their calling and conversion: the form in which these words are delivered, is not so much by way of entreaty, as demand; they are a declaration of Christ's will, in which he insists on it as his right, upon the foot of his purchase, and those covenant transactions which passed between him and his Father, on the behalf of those that were given to him: that they BE WITH ME WHERE I AM; not where he was then, unless it may be...

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 flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him._ Here we have the two doctrines of a general and a particular redemption. Through his death, Christ has power given him over all flesh, but the distinct, especial object is the salvation of his own «that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.» John 17:3. _And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent._ To know God in the sense of being acquainted with him loving him abiding in fellowship with him this is life eternal. To kno

JOHN 17:24 o] de,dwka,j moi {B} The difficult o[, read by good representatives of several text-types (î60 a B D W itd syrs, pal copbo goth geo1), was replaced in most witnesses by the easier ou[j, which prepares for the following kavkei/noi....

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 Own. (John 17:17 .) 5. The Glorification. (John 17:22 .) His words were ended to the eleven disciples and next He spoke to the Father, and His disciples listened to all His blessed words. What moments these must have been! His words to the Father told them once more how he loved them, how He cared for them, what He had done and what