john-17:4

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-10

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 Christ, their Surety, both glorified the Father, and was glorified of him. This is the sinner's way to eternal life, and when this knowledge shall be made perfect, holiness and happiness will be fully enjoyed. The holiness and happiness of the redeemed, are especially that glory of Christ, and of his... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - John 17:1-99

John 17 WE NEED TO have in our minds the five words that close the previous chapter as we read the opening words of this chapter. He who had overcome the world “lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, Father.” In the knowledge of the Father and in the light of heaven, what is the world worth? And what are its threats or persecutions? Here was the Son of God Himself in the absolute fulness of both, and hence the world was, so to speak, beneath His feet. He is now going to present Himself before... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - John 17:1-5

Christ's Great Sacerdotal Prayer. Christ prays for His own glorification: v. 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, v. 2. as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. v. 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. v. 4. I have glorified Thee... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - John 17:1-26

THE HIGH-PRIESTLY, INTERCESSORY PRAYER OF CHRIST ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE. A PRAYER FOR THE GLORIFICATION OF HIS NAME EVEN TO THE GORIFICATION OF HIS PEOPLE AND THE WORLD, OR UNTIL THE VANISHMENT OF THE WORLD AS WORLD. CHRIST, IN HIS SELF-SACRIFICE FOR THE WORLD, THE TRUTH AND FULFILLMENT OF THE SHEKINA AND ALL THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD IN THE WORLD. GLORIFICATION OF THE PRAYER, OF DECISIVE CONFLICTS OF SPIRIT, OF SACRIFICE. THE HEAVENLY GOALJohn 17:01These words spake1 Jesus, and lifted up his... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - John 17:1-13

John THE INTERCESSOR Joh_17:1 - Joh_17:19 . We may well despair of doing justice to the deep thoughts of this prayer, which volumes would not exhaust. Who is worthy to speak or to write about such sacred words? Perhaps we may best gain some glimpses of their great and holy sublimity by trying to gather their teaching round the centres of the three petitions, ‘glorify’ Joh_17:1 , Joh_17:5, ‘keep’ Joh_17:11, and ‘sanctify’ Joh_17:17. I. In Joh_17:1 - Joh_17:5 , Jesus prays for Himself, that... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - John 17:1-10

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 was asking what was in His Father’s heart and thought. The Lord speaks as if He had already passed through death, and were pleading before the throne. He is glad to have authority only that He may use it to give life. The Father’s gift to Jesus consisted in the men who followed Him, the word He... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - John 17:1-26

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 glory, and anticipating the coming glory, first, that resulting from the Cross, and then the return to that which had been abandoned. In the second section He spoke to His Father of His relationship with the men immediately surrounding Him at the time. His prayer for them was not indifferent to the... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - John 17:1-15

The Prayer Chapter John 17:1-15 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. As He prayed, therefore, He was knowingly approaching the great travail toward which He had steadily moved from before the foundation of the world. He knew all the time the anguish of His Calvary sufferings, and yet as the hour came nearer and nearer, the depth of the meaning of His sorrows must... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - John 17:1-26

Looking Backward John 17:1-26 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 bread and poured forth the cup. We all realize that this prayer was spoken just as Christ was about to go out to Gethsemane and on to the Cross. In such an hour it was natural for the Lord to pray. He sought the Father's face, the face of the One who was destined to leave Him alone during the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 17:4

THE WORK OF LIFE‘I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.’ John 17:4 If we might each choose his own epitaph, who would not choose this if he could? It is plain that before we can say to God that our work is finished we must be able to say it is begun; we must be clear that we have such a work. I. What, then, is our work?—Undoubtedly it has many parts, and the details are peculiar to each, but, speaking broadly, we may distinguish certain... read more

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-10

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - John 17:1-99

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - John 17:1-5

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - John 17:1-26

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - John 17:1-13

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - John 17:1-10

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - John 17:1-26

Wells of Living Water Commentary - John 17:1-15

Wells of Living Water Commentary - John 17:1-26

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 17:4

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