John 17:11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 17:11-16

After the general pleas with which Christ recommended his disciples to his Father's care follow the particular petitions he puts up for them; and, 1. They all relate to spiritual blessings in heavenly things. He does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, that they might raise estates and get preferments, but that they might be kept from sin, and furnished for their duty, and brought safely to heaven. Note, The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity; for what relates... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 17:9-19

17:9-19 "It is for them that I pray. It is not for the world that I pray, but for those whom you have given me because they are yours. All that I have is yours, and all that you have is mine. And through them glory has been given to me. I am no longer in the world and they are no longer in the world, and I go to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you gave to me, that they may be one, as we are one. When I was with them I kept them in your name, which you gave to me. I guarded... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 17:9-19

The great interest of this passage is that it tells us of the things for which Jesus prayed for his disciples. (i) The first essential is to note that Jesus did not pray that his disciples should be taken out of this world. He never prayed that they might find escape; he prayed that they might find victory. The kind of Christianity which buries itself in a monastery or a convent would not have seemed Christianity to Jesus at all. The kind of Christianity which finds its essence in prayer and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 17:11

And now I am no more in the world ,.... In the earth; which is no contradiction to his resurrection from the dead, and stay with his disciples for a while; nor to his return to judge the world at the last day; nor to his reigning on earth with his saints a thousand years; since it will not be the world as it now is, but it will be a new earth, renewed, purified and refined, and clear of the wicked inhabitants of it; and in which will only dwell righteous persons: besides, Christ was to be,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:11

I am no more in the world - I am just going to leave the world, and therefore they shall stand in need of peculiar assistance and support. They have need of all the influence of my intercession, that they may be preserved in thy truth. Keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me - Instead of οὑς δεδωκας μοι , Those whom thou hast given me, ABCEHLMS, Mt. BHV, and nearly one hundred others, read ᾡ , which refers to the τῳ ονοματι σου , thy name, immediately... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:11

Verse 11 11.And I am no longer in the world. He assigns another reason why he prays so earnestly for the disciples, namely, because they will very soon be deprived of his bodily presence, under which they had reposed till now. So long as he dwelt with them, he cherished them, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, (Matthew 23:37;) but now that he is about to depart, he asks that the Father will guard them by his protection. And he does so on their account; for he provides a remedy... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:1-26

4. The high-priestly intercession . Audible communion of the Son with the Father . The prayer which now follows reveals, in the loftiest and sublimest form, the Divine humanity of the Son of man, and the fact that, in the consciousness of Jesus as the veritable Christ of God, there was actually blended the union of the Divine and human, and a perfect exercise of the prerogatives of both. The illimitable task which writers of the second century must have set themselves to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:6-11

Our Lord's prayer for his disciples. As he had prayed for himself, he next prays for his disciples. I. CHRIST 'S MANIFESTATION OF THE FATHER TO HIS DISCIPLES . "I have manifested thy Name to the men which thou gavest me out of the world." 1. He only could make such a discovery of the Divine mind and will 2. Those who received the revelation were God ' s . "Thine they were:" (a) as his charge, (b) as his subjects, (c) as his apostles, (d) ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:6-19

(2) The prayer for his disciples . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:9-11

Jesus praying for his own. I. THE EXCLUSION . We have here a striking illustration of the definiteness of the prayers of Jesus. He knows exactly for whom he is praying, and what he wants for them. He defines them positively, and he defines them negatively. It is not enough for him to call them his own.' It must also be said why they are his own. If they belonged to the world, and had in them, unchecked and unmixed, the spirit of the world, they would not be his. This is a very... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 17:11-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 17:9-19

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 17:9-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 17:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:11

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:1-26

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:6-19

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:9-11

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