John 17

Jesus glorifies the father

John 17:1–5 ESV

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, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

glory is a strange word

signifies greatness

implies splendor and brightness

Father and Son glorify each other

Jesus’ work and eternal life glorifies the Father

Jesus returns to His heavenly glory upon His resurrection by returning to His rightful place by the Father

Jesus made the Father known to His disciples

John 17:6 ESV

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

The disciples are who God gave Him

The disciples are the first group chosen to share Jesus’ message

The disciples are carrying the message of truth

John 17:7–9 ESV

Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

They have recieved the word

They are now separate from the world because of Jesus

The disciples will be without Jesus

John 17:10–12 ESV

All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

The disciples had a special relationship with Jesus

He guarded them

Now Jesus is leaving

they must remain in the word

they will glorify Jesus

they are to follow Jesus like He followed the father

The disciples are separate from the world

John 17:13–19 ESV

But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

The word of God separates them

They are separate the same way Christ is separate

αγιάζω

And we are included as well

John 17:20–26 ESV

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

We are to be unified like Jesus and the father

so the world will believe

with the Father, Jesus, and each other

Love is the key to this whole passage

glory

sanctify

It is the motivation for everything