John 17:14 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 17:14

I have given them thy word ,.... The Gospel, and a commission and abilities to preach it, and which is a reason of what follows, namely, the world's hatred of them; because this word is not of men, nor agreeably to carnal reason; it magnifies the grace of God, and destroys boasting in men; it is against the carnal interest, worldly views and lusts of men: and the world hath hated them ; the inhabitants of the world, worldly men, such as are what they were when they first came into the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:14

I have given them thy word - Or, thy doctrine - τον λογον σου . In this sense the word λογος is often used by St. John. And the world hath hated them - The Jewish rulers, etc., have hated them. - Why? Because they received the doctrine of God, the science of salvation, and taught it to others. They knew Jesus to be the Messiah, and as such they proclaimed him: our Lord speaks prophetically of what was about to take place. How terrible is the perversion of human nature! Men despise... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:14

Verse 14 14.I have given them thy word. He employs a different argument in pleading with the Father on behalf of the disciples. It is, because they need his assistance on account of the hatred of the world. He likewise declares the cause of that hatred to be, that they have embraced the word of God, which the world cannot receive; as if he had said, “It belongs to thee to protect those who, on account of thy word, are hated by the world.” We must now keep in remembrance what we have lately... 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 17:6-19

(2) The prayer for his disciples . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:14

I have given them thy word ( δέδωκα , a permanent endowment); and the implication is that they have received it ( John 17:8 ). The phrase is rather more condensed than before, and carries all the consequences previously mentioned, and others as well to which the Lord had referred ( John 16:1-5 ). As a matter of fact, the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. This constant contrast between the mind of Christ and the spirit of the world... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:14-19

The world's hatred and Christ's prayer for the disciples' safe keeping against it. I. IT WAS CHRIST 'S WORD IN THE DISCIPLES THAT EXCITED THE WORLD 'S HATRED . "I have given them thy Word." They who receive the Word cross the world's path II. THE OPERATION OF THE WORLD 'S HATRED . "The world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." 1. It is the honor of believers that they are linked with Christ as... 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 17:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:14

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:1-26

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:6-19

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:14

The Pulpit Commentary - John 17:14-19

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