John
17:1-19
Lesson 206
17:1-19
Lesson 206
John 17:1-19
Prayer for sanctification 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: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 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 thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. |
Margin notes:
"The hour is come." (17:1) - The time for Jesus to be arrested and crucified has arrived. "Thou hast given him power over all flesh." (17:2) - Means, "You (God) have given Him (Jesus) power over everybody (Matthew 28:18)." "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ." (17:3) - "This is the way to eternal life, knowing you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ." "I have finished the work." (17:4) - His job is done; Jesus has laid the foundation of Christianity. "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." (17:5) - Means, Jesus existed even before the world was created (Proverbs 8:27-30; John 1:1; 17:24). Now that His earthly task is coming to an end, Christ is asking God to return Him to heaven. In Acts 7:56, we see that His prayer was answered. "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me." (17:6) - "I've made your name known to the men (the twelve disciples) which you gave me." "They have believed that thou didst send me." (17:8) - The disciples believed that God sent Jesus (John 16:30). "I pray not for the world." (17:9) - Jesus will pray for the world later. "I am glorified in them."(17:10) - "They are my glory." "Keep." (17:11) - Means, "protect". This verse is a prayer for Christian unity. Jesus will continue the prayer in lesson 207. "I kept them in thy name." (17:12) - "I protected them in your name." "The son of perdition." (17:12) - A reference to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who, as prophesied in Psalm 41:9, betrayed Christ. "Keep them from the evil." (17:15) - "Protect them from Satan." "Sanctify." (17:17) - To be blessed, made holy, consecrated, and connected to the spiritual. |