John 17
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vv 4-5) Full of Faith
vv 4-5) Full of Faith
[4] As Jesus is uttered these words, He was speaking as if He had already died, been buried and risen again.
He had glorified the Father by His sinless life, by His miracles, by His suffering and death, and by His resurrection. He had finished the work of salvation the Father had given Him to do.
Jesus has glorified the Father through His whole life, from His circumcision and dedication at the temple (Luke 2:21-23) Through His quiet years of obedience in Nazareth (Matthew 2:23).
Believer’s Bible Commentary W. Jesus Prays for His Ministry (17:1–5)
As Ryle puts it:
The crucifixion brought glory to the Father. It glorified His wisdom, faithfulness, holiness, and love. It showed Him wise, in providing a plan whereby He could be just, and yet the justifier of the ungodly.—It showed Him faithful in keeping His promise, that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head.—It showed Him holy, in requiring His law’s demands to be satisfied by our great Substitute.—It showed Him loving, in providing such a Mediator, such a Redeemer, and such a Friend for sinful man as His co-eternal Son.
The crucifixion brought glory to the Son. It glorified His compassion, His patience, and His power. It showed Him most compassionate, in dying for us, suffering in our stead, allowing Himself to be counted sin and a curse for us, and buying our redemption with the price of His own blood.—It showed Him most patient, in not dying the common death of most men, but in willingly submitting to such pains and unknown agonies as no mind can conceive, when with a word He could have summoned His Father’s angels, and been set free.—It showed Him most powerful, in bearing the weight of all transgressions of the world, and vanquishing Satan, and despoiling him of his prey.
[5] Before Christ came into the world, He dwelt in heaven with the Father. When the angels looked upon the Lord, they saw all the glory of Deity.
To every eye, He was obviously God. But when He came among men, the glory of Deity was veiled. Though He was still God, it was not apparent to most onlookers. They saw Him merely as the carpenter’s Son. Here, the Savior is praying that the visible manifestation of His glory in heaven might be restored.
This clearly teaches us the preexistence of Christ.
8 I am the Lord; that is my name;
my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to carved idols.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
for how should my name be profaned?
My glory I will not give to another.
If God the Father and God the Son share their glory, they must both be YHWH.
The Gospel of John has emphasized the glory of Jesus throughout its record. John was careful to record the many ways Jesus referred to His own glory in this prayer.
The life of Jesus was a manifestation of God’s glory, and the disciples beheld this glory:
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The miracles of Jesus manifested His glory:
11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jesus only ever sought the glory of His Father:
18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.
The revelation of glory is the reward of faith:
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
Many times Jesus spoke of His coming passion and crucifixion as His coming glorification:
39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
God the Son seeks to glorify God the Father:
28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
God the Father glorifies God the Son:
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.
vv 6-19) Prayer concerning the disciples
vv 6-19) Prayer concerning the disciples
vv 6-8) Jesus’ mission among the disciples
vv 6-8) Jesus’ mission among the disciples
[6] Jesus thought about the three or so years of ministry and teaching with His chosen disciples, and summarized it with this phrase.
The “name” in Scripture means the Person, His attributes, and character. What this implies is that Jesus didn’t simply teach about the name of God, He also manifested that character. Jesus had fully declared the Father’s true nature.
Why is this important?
Jesus lived out the love and goodness and righteousness and grace and holiness of God the Father.
We too have a similar call and duty. Paul wrote that believers are like living letters, read by the world:
2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Our responsibility is to manifest the name and nature of God to a watching world.
The disciple had been given to the Son out of the world. They were separated from the unbelieving mass of mankind and set apart to belong to Christ.
“They were the Father’s by election before the world was. and became Christ’s by the gift of the Father, and by purchase of blood” J.G. Bellett
Jesus chose HIs disciples after a night of prayer, expressing His total dependence upon God the Father in the choosing of the men:
12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
Judas had departed from this group of disciples sometime earlier that evening (John 13: 26-30). With Judas gone, Jesus could truly say, “the men you have given Me out of the world.”
“Yours they were, and You gave them to me:” Here we are given some insight into the workings of the Persons of the Trinity in what could be called a division of labor. There was some sense in which the disciples first belonged to God the Father, then were given to God the Son.
“They have kept your word:” In spite of all their failures and shortcomings, He credits them with having believed and obeyed His teaching. Jesus saw a genuine work of God in them. For all their failures and faults, they had kept God’s word.
[7-8] Jesus Christ the Savior had perfectly represented His Father. He explained to the disciples that He did not speak or act by His own authority, but only as the Father instructed Him. So they, the disciples, believed that God the Father had sent the Son.
Its pretty clear that the disciples didn’t understand everything about Jesus and His work, but at this point they were convinced of Divine origin of Jesus and His teaching.
These verses I believe show us salvation from two different views and each perspective is true from its point of view:
John 17:6 explains their salvation in the election of God, seeing it from God’s point of view. (the people whom you gave me)
John 17:8 Explains their salvation in their faith, seeing it from humanity’s point of view. (They have believed that you sent me)
vv 9-10) Jesus directs His prayer
vv 9-10) Jesus directs His prayer
[9] As High Priest, He prayed for the disciple; He did not pray for the world. This shouldn’t be taken to mean that Christ never prayed for the world. On the cross, He prayed, “Father, forgive them; for they dod not know what they do.”
Because Jesus is the Savior of the world:
42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
47 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
Salvation of the world depends on the witness of those whom the Father has given Him out of the world, and it is they who need his intercession at this point in time.
Jesus imitates the high priest, the second part of whose prayer, on the day of expiation, was for the priest, the sons of Aaron.
[10] The perfect union between the Father and the Son is shown here. No mere man could truthfully say these words. We might be able to say to God, “All mine are Yours,” but we could never say, “All Yours are Mine.”
Again this shows the equality between the Father and the Son.
What do you suppose He means by saying, “I am glorified in them?”
Despite the fact that these men were going to abandon Jesus shortly. He knew that they were going to be instruments of God to glorify Himself.
In a sense, this is what it means to be a believer, to be born again, to be a true follower of Jesus Christ- to have Him glorified in us. Jesus doesn’t merely want to dwell in or live in the believer, but to be glorified in them.
Paul understood this:
27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Noting that God’s work in us moves from:
18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
No other than Jesus should be glorified in the believer. That is reserved for our Lord and Savior not for our leaders, or people we look too for inspiration and guidance.
24 The Lord bless you and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
