John 17:17-20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:18

As thou hast sent me - so have I also sent them - The apostles had the same commission which Christ had, considered as man - they were endued with the same Spirit, so that they could not err, and their word was accompanied with the same success. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:19

I sanctify myself - I consecrate and devote myself to death - that I may thereby purchase eternal salvation for them. There seems to be here an allusion to the entering of the high priest into the holy of holies, when, having offered the sacrifice, he sprinkled the blood before the ark of the covenant. So Jesus entered into the holiest of all by his own blood, in order to obtain everlasting redemption for men: see Hebrews 9:11-13 . The word, ἁγιαζω , to consecrate or sanctify, is used... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:20

III. Our Lord's Prayer for His Church, and for All Who Would Believe on His Name, Through the Preaching of the Apostles and Their Successor. John 17:20-26 . See on John 17:1 ; (note). read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 17 17.Sanctify them by thy truth. This sanctification includes the kingdom of God and his righteousness; that is, when God renews us by his Spirit, and confirms in us the grace of renewal, and continues it to the end. He asks, first, therefore, that the Father would sanctify the disciples, or, in other words, that he would consecrate them entirely to himself, and defend them as his sacred inheritance. Next, he points out the means of sanctification, and not without reason; for there are... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:18

Verse 18 18.As thou hast sent me into the world. He confirms his prayer by another argument; namely, because the calling of Christ and of the apostles is the same calling, and is common to both. “I now,” he says, “appoint them to an office, which I have hitherto held by thy command; and, therefore, it is necessary that they should be furnished with the power of thy Spirit, that they may be able to sustain so weighty a charge.” read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:19

Verse 19 19.And for their sales I sanctify myself. By these words he explains more clearly from what source that sanctification flows, which is completed in us by the doctrine of the Gospel. It is, because he consecrated himself to the Father, that his holiness might come to us; for as the blessing on the first-fruits is spread over the whole harvest, so the Spirit of God cleanses us by the holiness of Christ and makes us partakers of it. Nor is this done by imputation only, for in that respect... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:20

Verse 20 20.And I ask not for these only. He now gives a wider range to his prayer, which hitherto had included the apostles alone; for he extends it to all the disciples of the Gospel, so long as there shall be any of them to the end of the world. This is assuredly a remarkable ground of confidence; for if we believe in Christ through the doctrine of the Gospel, we ought to entertain no doubt that we are already gathered with the apostles into his faithful protection, so that not one of us... 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 17:14-19

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

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