John 17:3

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 17:3

THE ONLY TRUE GOD 1‘And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.’ John 17:3 The truth and the reality of a man’s religion depend on his conception of God. We see this as we study other systems and other religions. If we go to a heathen country and want to know the character of the people there, we immediately begin to try to find out what their conception of God really is. If they have an idea of a bloodthirsty God, you will... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-5

Jesus’ Dedication of Himself (John 17:1-5 ). In opening His final discourse in John 13:31 Jesus had said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. And God will glorify Him in Himself and will immediately glorify Him’ (John 13:31-32). We note first that Jesus is to be glorified as ‘the Son of Man’. This ‘glorification of the Son of Man’ is described in Daniel 7:13-14. ‘I saw in the night visions and behold there came with the clouds of Heaven (out of a period of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-26

Jesus’ Final Words To His Apostles (John 13:31 to John 17:26 ). This next section, from John 13:31 to John 17:26, can be seen as the equivalent of the dying words of Jesus. Words spoken on approaching death, and especially on a deathbed, were considered to be particularly potent. There are numerous examples of this in Scripture, like the blessings of Jacob to his sons in Genesis 47:29 to Genesis 49:33, Moses’ farewell words in Deuteronomy 33:0, the farewell of Joshua to the nation of Israel... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:3

“And this is life eternal, that they should know you the only true God and him whom you did send, even Jesus Messiah.” This life, we now learn, consists of men entering a plane whereby they “know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent”. They enter into a deep and personal experience of God. They ‘know Him’, that is, they ‘see’ and enter under the personal rule of God (John 3:3-5) and receive a new spiritual awareness. To them God is no longer far off, but is real in their... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-4

John 17:1-Numbers : . Jesus prays with full consciousness that the crisis of His earthly career is come. Will His death prove the annihilation of His person and work, or its glorification, the transition to a higher form of life, in which His life-work on earth shall be consummated in fuller life under circumstances of wider opportunity? The glory for which He prays is not for Himself but to disclose what the Son really is, that by the completion of His life-work, which has shown God’ s... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-26

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 style and language, of content and of arrangement, that are raised elsewhere in this gospel. The language and the theology of the author are conspicuous. And yet we cannot escape the conviction that a greater than “ John” is here, or fail to ask whether something of his style and theology was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 17:3

Those who deny the Divine nature of Christ, think they have a mighty argument from, this text, where Christ, (as they say), speaking to his Father, calleth him the only true God. But divines answer, that the term only, or alone, is not to be applied to thee, but to the term God; and the sense this: To know thee to be that God which is the only true God: and this appeareth from 1 John 5:20, where Christ is said to be the true God, which he could not be if the Father were the only true God,... read more

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