Eternal life was the knowledge of the Father, the only true God, and of Jesus Christ, whom He had sent. He prays for them, distinguishing them completely from the world. Chapter 17 is divided thus: Verses 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. By the truth, and the Father's word is truth. Chapter 17 This chapter is a prayer, it is the Lord’s prayer, the Lord Christ’s prayer. As to Judas, it was only the fulfilment of the word. People try to achieve great things by themselves mainly because of the size of their ego, their level of insecurity, or simple naiveté and temperament. Thus they had acknowledged that Jesus came forth from the Father, and that He came with the Father's authority-the Father had sent Him. Although chapters 13 to 17 of John may be viewed as a larger, monolithic unit, most of chapter 13 may be viewed as a preparation for the farewell, and the farewell prayer in chapter 17 as its conclusion. It was one only divine power and nature that united them-the Holy Ghost. They had lost Him, visibly, to find themselves (by Him and in Him) in His own relationship with the Father, enjoying all that He enjoyed in that communion here below, as being in His place in their own relationship with the Father. "The head of every man is Christ." True knowledge here was not outward protection or future hope, but the communication, in life, of communion with the Being thus known to the soul-of communion with God Himself fully known as the Father and the Son. The world had not known Him, but Jesus had known Him, and the disciples had known that the Father had sent Him. And Jesus would have us enjoy, while here below, the consciousness that the distinction has been made by the communications of grace, before it is made by judgment. Those who refuse to know Jesus as Savior and Lord shall experience death, and not life. [2] There are three unities spoken of. Also, the bell serves as a life-clock throughout the time of each person. He prayed the Father for His disciples, because they belonged to the Father; Jesus must needs, therefore, seek their blessing. "I have glorified thee": "now glorify me." The Book of John . [2] The New King James Version divides this chapter into three sections: The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel.[4]. Lesson 17 Lesson 7. The Father would keep in His own name those whom He had given to Jesus. Watch our overview video on the Gospel of John, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. So that it was the Father's glory, revealed by Him on earth, and the glory into which He had ascended as man; for this is the complete result-the illustration in glory of the way in which He had set Himself apart for God, but on behalf of His own. John says that Jesus is the incarnated Word of God, bringing “grace and truth,” replacing the law given by Moses, and making God known in the world (1:17). There was one Lord’s prayer which he taught us to pray, and did not pray himself, for he needed not to pray for the forgiveness of sin; but this was properly and peculiarly his, and suited him only as a Mediator, and is a sample of his intercession, and yet is of use to us both for instruction and encouragement in prayer. to be the object of this mutual affection, of these common and inseparable interests of the Father and the Son. John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The two first were literally accomplished according to the terms in which they are expressed. Even disciples must pray for sanctifying grace. But the principle of the existence of this unity, added yet another character to that truth-that of manifestation, or at least of an inward source which realised its manifestation in them: "I in them," said Jesus, "and thou in me." but He does not say, And now I will glorify myself. His career here was finished, and He had to ascend on high. The Father and the Son were their only object; the accomplishing their counsels and objects their only pursuit. The words of the prophets were true. This was their relationship to the Father, Jesus being away. What then were they to be? By what rule, by what model, were they to be formed? The world (for this will be in the millennial glory, and manifested to the world) will then know (He does not say, "that it may believe") that Jesus had been sent by the Father (how deny it, when He should be seen in glory?) There we are not only like Christ (conformed to the Son, bearing the image of the heavenly man before the eyes of the world), but with Him where He is. For He speaks here of given glory. Ask students to explain why John 17is referred to as the intercessory prayer. He gave them the word of His Father-not the words to bring them into communion with Him, but His word-the testimony of what He was. They are sent into it on the part of Christ: were they of it, they could not be sent into it. 14:7). John 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This ends the second part of that which related to the disciples, in communion and in testimony. John learns that this great whore sits on many waters, which represent the peoples of the earth (see Rev. Lesson 1 of each part can be downloaded below as Pdf. This, moreover, gives the relationship in which He enters into this new place as man, His Son, and the work by which He does so in righteousness, and thus gives us a title, and the character in which we have a place there. This was their position by faith. Lesson 19 Lesson 9. Nevertheless the Lord does not pray that they might be taken out of it; but that the Father should keep them from the evil. The Lord presents to the Father two motives for His request: 1st, They were the Father's, so that the Father, for His own glory, and because of His affection for that which belonged to Him, should keep them; 2nd, Jesus was glorified in them, so that if Jesus was the object of the Father's affection, for that reason also the Father should keep them. Verses 1-3 present His new position in two aspects: "glorify thy Son"-power over all flesh, for eternal life to those given to Him; verses 4, 5, His work and its results. His work and His Person alike gave Him a right to it. Here the character of the unity differs a little from that in verse 11. (17) To condemn the world gives to the English reader a stronger impression than that of the original Greek. Overview. This page was last edited on 14 January 2021, at 14:02. For they were the Father's. He also prays for them that they may be one as He and the Father were. The Father glorified on earth by the Son: the Son glorified with the Father on high: such is the revelation contained in these verses-a right, proceeding from His Person as Son, but to a glory into which He entered as man, in consequence of having, as such, perfectly glorified His Father on earth. Methodist theologian Joseph Benson calls this prayer "Our Lord’s Intercessory Prayer", because "it is considered … Commentary on John 17:17-19 (Read John 17:17-19) Christ next prayed for the disciples, that they might not only be kept from evil, but made good. It is thus, also, that the disciples are presented to the Father; not as receiving Christ in the character of Messiah, and honouring Him as possessing His power by that title. It is a personal relationship with God. And now-the disciples being already in this position-He places them, according to His thoughts and His desires, before the Father in prayer. 24 Weeks . This is the ground of His request with regard to their position. Alternatively, "After Jesus had spoken these words ..." (to his disciples, in chapter 16),[7] namely: Benson suggested that "these words" refers to "the words recorded in the three preceding chapters" (chapters 14 to 16). So, also, in chapter 5 of our Gospel, He quickens whom He will; here it is those whom the Father has given Him. They had known that all which Jesus had was of the Father. He has taken the place of man to receive all, though it be a glory He had with the Father before the world was. John Chapter 17 One of the most famous prayers between Jesus and His Father, God, is recorded in John Chapter 17. "Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is the truth." The world will know we have been loved as Jesus when we appear in the same glory with Him; but our part is to know it now, Christ being in us. The object of His solicitude was to keep them in unity, even as the Father and the Son are one. Lesson 15 Lesson 5. Precious truth! It does not follow the same order or reproduce the same stories as the synoptic gospels. But the word of the Father, by Jesus, revealed the Father Himself, in Him whom the Father had sent, and put him who received them into the place of love, which was Christ's place; and to know the Father and the Son was life eternal. It is Christ in all believers, and the Father in Christ, a unity in manifestation in glory, not merely in communion-a oneness in which all is perfectly connected with its source. We see the same truth of the communication of eternal life in connection with His divine nature and His oneness with the Father in 1 John 5:20. It was thus that the disciples were to be set apart. The connection thus was direct. The High Priestly Prayer. By one Spirit, in which they were necessarily united, they had a place in communion with the Father and the Son. He being here, had kept them in the Father's name, faithful to accomplish all that the Father had committed to Him, and to lose none of those that were His. Lesson 24 But He spoke these things, being still here, the disciples hearing them, in order that they might understand that they were placed before the Father in the same position that Christ had held, and that they might thus have fulfilled in themselves, in this same relationship, the joy which Christ had possessed. © 2021 Christianity.com. Thus, the Lord asks that they may be one in them-the Father and the Son. These are the verses that relate to Christ. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes [] so that it will be even more fruitful. He had declared unto them the Father's name, and would declare it, even when He had gone up on high, in order that the love wherewith the Father had loved Him might be in them (that their hearts might possess it in this world-what grace!) Chapter 12 closes with the last words addressed to the people. John's calling to be a disciple of the Lord is described in the synoptic Gospels (Math. It was this, personally, that they were to be formed by, the Father's word, as He was revealed in Jesus. Here He fulfils the Father's will, and is dependent on Him in the place that He has taken, and that He is going to take, even in the glory, however glorious His nature may be. It may well have been a circular letter to a fai… With that being said, how does John 15:1-17 apply to me personally? We shall share this in the sense of seeing our Beloved in it, and of being with Him, and of beholding the glory which the Father has given Him, according to the love wherewith He loved Him before the world had any part whatever in the dealings of God. This is an actual opportunity for us to listen in to the intercommunication of two members of the divine Trinity. Lesson 18 Lesson 8 . Jesus desires that we should see His glory. He speaks of their position through faith-not of their realisation of this position. This is the unity referred to here. Eternal life is more than an endless existence. The knowledge of the Almighty gave assurance to the pilgrim of faith; that of Jehovah, the certainty of the fulfilment of the promises of God to Israel; that of the Father, who sent the Son, Jesus Christ (the Anointed Man and the Saviour), who was that life itself, and so received as a present thing (1 John 1:1-4), was life eternal. Papyrus 108 (second or third century) containing John 17:23–24 from the end of the Farewell discourse. First of the disciples, "as we are," unity by the power of one Spirit in thought, purpose, mind, service, the Holy Ghost making them all one, their path in common, the expression of His mind and power, and of nothing else. If it is a question of realisation, we must then think of man; yet of a strength also that is perfected in weakness. Wonderful grace that permits us to hear these desires, and to understand all the privileges that flow from His thus caring for us, from our being the subject of intercourse between the Father and the Son, of their common love towards us, when Christ expresses His own desires-that which He has at heart, and which He presents to the Father as His own personal wishes! Includes Topical Study on the Feasts (Lessons 2-4) and Topical Study on Sheep He then presents the circumstances to which the prayer applied. Being thus in relationship with the Father, who had taken them out from the men of the world, and having received the Father's word (and eternal life in the Son in that knowledge), they were not of the world even as Jesus was not of the world: and therefor the world hated them. One only divine Spirit was the bond of that oneness. He gives us (and here the witnesses and the believers are together) the glory which the Father has given Him. For it is in the Son who declares it to us, that we know the name of the Father whom He reveals to us. Nothing that manifested God the Father had been wanting, whatever might be the difficulty; the contradiction of sinners was but an occasion of so doing. It is this which is so precious to us, because He has acquired it by His sufferings for us, and yet it is what was perfectly due to Him-the just reward for having, in them, perfectly glorified the Father. Lesson 21 Lesson 11. Lesson 23 . [1]. The time would come when (according to Psalm 2) He would ask of the Father with reference to the world; He was not doing so now, but for those out of the world, whom the Father had given Him. What a place for us! Therefore the disciples were to have that kind of unity. The last three verses alone take the disciples up to heaven as a supplemental truth. In the scriptures we possess it, written and stedfast: they reveal Him, bear witness to Him. We are continuing in our series on the Gospel of John by looking at chapter 17, which in many ways, as it is often called, is the ‘high priestly prayer’ of Jesus. That is, He would have us enjoy now that relationship in love in which we shall see Him in heaven. Structure and overview. and Jesus Himself in them, the communicator of that love, the source of strength to enjoy it, conducting it, so to speak, in all the perfection in which He enjoyed it, into their hearts, in which He dwelt-Himself the strength, the life, the competency, the right, and the means of enjoying it thus, and as such, in the heart. A.1 This claim presupposes certain knowledge Like many of the previous ‘I am’ claims of Jesus - ‘I am the bread of life’, ‘I am the light of the world’, ‘I am the good shepherd’ - this claim presupposes certain knowledge in his hearers: The ‘bread’ claim presupposed knowledge of the manna which God sent ‘from heaven.’ The ‘light’ claim presupposed knowledge of God as the Light of Israel, of Israel ’s intended role of bringing light to the Gentiles, and of prophecies of the Messiah as the one who would bring light. All partake, it is true, in glory, of this absolute oneness in thought, object, fixed purpose, which is found in the oneness of the Father and the Son. And the world had hated them as it had hated Jesus (the living and personal testimony of the Father) and the Father Himself. The original text was written in Koine Greek. The second was for the world's believing, the third for its knowing. So far as they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they had but one mind, one counsel, one aim. They had only the thoughts of God; because God Himself, the Holy Ghost, was the source of their thoughts. He now declares the conditions under which He takes this place on high. [3] This answers to Moses and Elias entering into the cloud, besides their display in the same glory as Christ, standing on the mountain. Verses 20-26: Jesus Prays for All Believers. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. The mind, the aim, the life, the whole moral existence, were consequently one. The author of this epistle never identified himself by name, but Christians since the beginning of the church have considered this letter authoritative, believing it was written by But there is a secret for those who love Him, which belongs to His Person and to our association with Himself. In The Farewell Discourse and Final Prayer of Jesus, D. A. Carson offers a penetrating exposition of John 14–17—the finale of Jesus’ teaching.These short studies touch on many of the great themes of the Christian faith, held together by the experience of the cross that loomed over Christ and his disciples at Gethsemane. In verse 20, He declares that He prays also for those who should believe on Him through their means. This is probably why he named them Boanerges (the sons of thunder, Mark 3:17). It was the communion of the Father and of the Son (compare 1 John 1:3; and how similar the language of the apostle is to that of Christ!). This was the means to make the world believe that the Father had sent the Son; for here were those that had believed it, who, however opposed their interests and habits might be, however strong their prejudices, yet were one (by this powerful revelation and by this work) in the Father and the Son. Besides, the interests of the Father and the Son could not be separated. Dull of comprehension as they were, the Lord recognises them according to His appreciation of their faith, according to the object of that faith, as known to Himself, and not according to their intelligence. What unutterable grace! Lesson 13 Lesson 3. He had fully, perfectly, manifested the Father. He enters into the detail of His desires in this respect, grounded on their not being of the world. Therefore He had imparted to them all the words that the Father had given Him-the communications of His love to Himself, when walking as Son in that place here below; and, in the especial name of "Holy Father," by which the Son Himself addressed Him from the earth, the Father was to keep those whom the Son had left there. Thus should they have His joy fulfilled in themselves. He had perfectly glorified the Father on earth. To a much greater degree, it is the product of a developed theological reflection and grows out of a different circle and tradition. 17 When Jesus had spoken these words, () he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, () the hour has come; () glorify your Son that the Son may () glorify you, 2 since () you have given him authority over all flesh, () to give eternal life to all () whom you have given him. While the wording differs slightly than accounts written in other gospels, the overall theme is consistent: Jesus’ heart is heavy with the ordeal that He is about to endure, as well as the trials and tribulations that will befall His followers afterward. The means of giving this grace is, "through thy truth, thy word is truth." I add, it was out of this the enemy sought to seduce Him, in vain, in the wilderness. He now speaks of the disciples; how they entered into their peculiar place in connection with this position of Jesus-into this relationship with His Father. 17:6). He receives all from His Father-He is sent by Him, His Father glorifies Him. “Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.” (Jn 20:30–31) Some explanations may assist in apprehending the meaning of certain passages in this marvellous and precious chapter. This acts out what John said in John 1:17: For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ . The Father would be thoroughly interested for them, because in them the Son was to be glorified. In this sense the bond was truly divine. [2], "Over all flesh" (σαρκός, sarkos), from the noun σὰρξ (sarx),[10] becomes "all people" in the New International Version and the Good News Translation. It portrays a prayer of Jesus Christ addressed to His Father, placed in context immediately before His betrayal and crucifixion, the events which the gospel often refers to as His glorification. 15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. and, moreover, that the disciples had been loved by the Father, even as Jesus Himself was loved. He was no longer in this world Himself. It was written by the Disciple/Apostle John around 85-95 A.D. What language of equality of nature and love! ... John's Gospel - Chapter 13 - 17 . English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_17&oldid=1000286064, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Verses 6-19: Jesus Prays for His Disciples. They would be deprived of His personal care as present with them, but they would be in this world, while He was coming to the Father. All Rights Reserved. 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