Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:6-11
The bases for these requests 17:6-11a read more
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Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:6-19
2. Jesus’ requests for the Eleven 17:6-19Jesus’ glorification depended on the wellbeing of those whom the Father had given to Him (John 17:2). Consequently Jesus prayed for them too. He made several requests for them but first expressed the reasons He was praying for them and why He wanted the Father to grant His requests.The length of this section of the prayer suggests that Jesus had greater concern for His disciples’ welfare than for His own."Jesus prayed for His disciples before He chose... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:7-8
There was much that the Eleven did not yet understand, but they did believe that Jesus had come from God and that His utterances (Gr. rhemata) were God’s words. Commendably they accepted Jesus’ teachings even though they did not understand them fully, and what they understood they believed. Jesus’ unusual phrasing stresses His unity with the Father."As long as we stay with the figure of the Galilean Jesus (perhaps romanticizing over the beauty of his holiness and lowliness) so long we miss what... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:9-10
Because the Eleven had believed on Him Jesus made request for them, not for the world, at this point. The basis for that request was that these disciples belonged to God, so their welfare was His special interest. Those who belong to the Father belong equally to the Son. Thus Jesus claimed equal concern for the Eleven with the Father. This is another claim of equality with the Father. Glory had come to Jesus through the faith of the Eleven, as it had not come from the world. read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - John 17:8
17:8 words (m-3) Rhema , the divine communications, see Note, v. 14. known (n-20) Objective knowledge. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-26
Christ’s High-Priestly Prayer1-26. Christ’s Great Intercession for Himself, for the Apostles, and for the World. This prayer is often, and suitably called Christ’s ’High-priestly prayer,’ because in it He solemnly consecrates Himself to be priest and victim in the approaching sacrifice. The veil is drawn back for a moment from the inner sanctuary of His mind, and we are enabled to contemplate with awe and reverence the nature of that close communion which He habitually maintained with His... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:8
(8) For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.—Our Lord explains in this verse how the disciples attained to the knowledge He had spoken of in John 17:7, and lays stress in the first place on His own work in teaching them, “I, on My part, have given unto them,” and on the matter taught as that which the Father had committed unto Him (John 12:49).And they have received them.—Not less emphatic is the work of the disciples themselves. “They on their part received them.” Others had... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:9
(9) I pray for them: I pray not for the world.—Better, I am praying for them: I am not praying for the world. Both pronouns are emphatic. “I who have during my work on earth taught them;” “they who have received the truth” (John 17:8). “I who am about to leave the world;” “they who will remain in the world” (John 17:11). The tense is the strict present, referring to the prayer which He is at this moment uttering, and not to His general practice, which the Authorised version may be taken to... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - John 17:1-26
John 17:0 During his last illness John Knox was accustomed to hear each day the seventeenth chapter of St. John's Gospel, a chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and the fifty-third of Isaiah. On the last day of his life (Monday, November 24, 1572) a little after noon, 'he caused his wife to read the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, of the Resurrection, to whom he said, "Is not that a comfortable chapter?" A little after, "Now, for the last, I commend my soul,... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 17:9
9-14. I pray for them—not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on John 17:1). not for the world—for they had been given Him "out of the world" (John 17:1- :), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such. read more