This Is Eternal Life
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Introduction
Introduction
How can we even enter chapter 17?
Context:
Context:
1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, 4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.
The focal point of this prayer is the Father:
He is the One to whom Jesus prays.
He is the One to whom Jesus submits.
He is the One to whom Jesus will return.
Jesus refers to the Father 52x’s in John 13-17.
Summary:
Summary:
The Father does not exist in this world - John 13:1
1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
The Father owns everything - John 13:3
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,
The Father has a house where He is - John 13:2
2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
Jesus and the Father are the same in essence, nature, character, and being, but not in Person (He is in the heavens, Jesus was on earth ) -John 14:9
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
The Father loves the disciples - John 14:21
21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
9 “Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
The Father maintains and removes people from Christ - John 15:1-2
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
The Father is glorified by fruit on the branches - John 15:8
8 “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
The Father is the One to whom we must pray in the name of Christ - John 15:16
16 “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
23 “In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.
The religious zealot will destroy the disciples of Christ because they do not know the Father - John 16:3
3 “These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.
The Father never left Christ alone (until He was bearing our transgressions on the cross) - John 16:23
23 “In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.
The Father is righteous - John 17:25
25 “O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;
What is the relationship with the Father like after this upper room discourse?
The Father is handing Jesus over to Rome and the Pharisees:
The Father is handing Jesus over to Rome and the Pharisees:
10 Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus. 11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?”
10 So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?” 11 Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”
The Father DID, in fact, leave Christ for a short period of time (3 hours-v.45):
The Father DID, in fact, leave Christ for a short period of time (3 hours-v.45):
33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull, 34 they gave Him wine to drink mixed with gall; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink. 35 And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they began to keep watch over Him there. 37 And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read, “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” 38 At that time two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left. 39 And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying, 42 “He saved others; He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him. 43 “He trusts in God; let God rescue Him now, if He delights in Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” 44 The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words. 45 Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” 47 And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, began saying, “This man is calling for Elijah.” 48 Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink. 49 But the rest of them said, “Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him.” 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many. 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
Immediately upon His death, Jesus went to be with the Father:
Immediately upon His death, Jesus went to be with the Father:
5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
28 “I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father.”
40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 “And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!” 43 And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”
46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” Having said this, He breathed His last.
The result of all of this is that the Father and Jesus enjoy constant, glorious, exalted communion to this day on the throne of God over the heavens and the earth.
1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Therefore:
We pray to this Father, to Whom Jesus prayed.
We depend upon this Father, upon Whom Jesus depended.
We love the Father, Whom Jesus loved.
We obey the Father, Whom Jesus obeyed.
Immediately, Jesus is going to be betrayed, mocked, scorned, and executed.
He will be placed on trial for insurrection, blasphemy, and presenting false messianic hopes.
He will be slapped, punched, and bruised to the point of bleeding profusely.
He will be forced to carry a timber cross member on a back with open flesh and then spikes driven through the wrist bones and the instep of His feet.
He will be suspended in that condition for hours in a hot Spring afternoon.
But, the only event that will cause His crying, His pain, His despair, is the absence of His Father from Him for 3 hours.
Jesus has been anticipating this “hour”:
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jesus has also been seeking the glory of the Father as well.
28 “Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
Jesus is right on the brink of that hour.
It has begun.
So, as usual, He prays to His beloved Father.
12 It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
John 17 is the record of Jesus praying to the Father before the hour of His “suffering”:
25 “But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
15 And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;
26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”
46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,
Therefore, we have a record of the intensely emotional, personal, and eternally intimate petition from the Beloved to the Father.
Thus, we can’t go through this lightly.
Organization of the Prayer:
The Beginning of the Prayer:
The Purpose of the Prayer:
The Organization of the Prayer:
The Organization of the Prayer:
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to St John, Volumes 1 & 2 (Parting Words: A Summary of the Last Discourse (vv. 25–31))
It has been pointed out that several of the thoughts underlying the Lord’s Prayer, which Jesus prescribed for the use of His disciples, appear also in the great Prayer of Intercession in c. 17. With the opening address, “Our Father,” cf. 17:1, 5, 11, 21, 24, 25 where “Father” is used in the special and personal sense in which Jesus was accustomed to use it. “Hallowed be Thy Name” is recalled, vv. 6, 11, 12, 26. Perhaps “Thy kingdom come” is the form in which we may express something of what Christ expressed when He said “Glorify Thy Son” (vv. 1, 5). “As in heaven, so in earth,” has echoes in vv. 4, 5 With “lead us not into temptation” cf. “I kept them … I guarded them” (v. 12). And “deliver us from evil” is almost verbally reproduced (v. 15).
John 12–21 7. The Magisterial Prayer as the Final Preparation for Passover (17:1–26)
In learning about prayer from the Lord, John also learned from Jesus that God was not some abstract force in the universe but was like a personal Father.
John 12–21 7. The Magisterial Prayer as the Final Preparation for Passover (17:1–26)
Jesus came into a Jewish world that had developed a remote view of God, one that needed angels to carry messages. The people had ceased to use the name of God for fear of taking his name in vain, just like the Prodigal Son, who could speak of “heaven” but not use the name of God (cf. Luke 15:18, 21). Into this context of speaking of God by means of surrogate titles Jesus came and called God his Father. But what was even more astounding was that he taught his disciples to pray “Our Father” (cf. Matt 6:9). For the Jews of that day such a personal view of God was very degrading of God and akin to blasphemy (cf. John 5:18). Yet in spite of his personal sense of the Father’s presence, Jesus modeled for his disciples how to honor and glorify God through consistent obedience to the will of the Father. It is this wonderful sense of Jesus’ personal relationship to God that John captured in this magisterial prayer of John 17. Few passages of Scripture come so close to revealing the heart of God’s special agent as these magnificent twenty-six verses.
John 12–21 7. The Magisterial Prayer as the Final Preparation for Passover (17:1–26)
But chap. 17 is also an intriguing work itself, and it serves as a magnificent conclusion to this Farewell Cycle. Encapsulated within this concluding chapter are a series of seven distinct petitions that for the most part invoke the name “Father” and are like flashing signals notifying the reader of changing emphases in this great prayer. As I have indicated earlier, the three previous petitions in the Gospel all use this same signal (11:41; 12:27–28). In learning about prayer from the Lord, John also learned from Jesus that God was not some abstract force in the universe but was like a personal Father.
John 12–21 (7. The Magisterial Prayer as the Final Preparation for Passover (17:1–26))
Using the key of pater (father), it immediately becomes evident that there are at least six petitions in this chapter (vv. 1, 5, 11, 21, 24, 25). To these six petitions is added a seventh petition using an implied pater in v. 17. What is even more intriguing is that these seven petitions seem to connect with seven aspects of the Gospel theologically and linguistically in a way that stretches the mind because of how these connections were so artfully designed. But the structure is not merely developed in terms of the seven petitions. There also seems to be another structural marker, erotō, “I pray” or “I ask” at 17:9 and 17:20 that seems to signal major shifts in the petitions and therefore to divide the chapter into three major sections, as was suggested by Brown. But I would entitle these three sections (1) Finishing the Mission in a Hostile World (17:1–8), (2) Preparing the Disciples (17:9–19), and (3) Looking to the Future (17:20–26).In concluding these introductory remarks, I must also mention another important fact with respect to two verbs that are used repeatedly throughout this chapter. They are didonai (“give”) in 17:2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 22, 25 and apostellein (“send”) in 17:3, 8, 18, 21, 23, 25. In using these verbs John was highlighting the fact that the main focus of the chapter was not to be put on Jesus but on his mission in the establishment and confirming of a community that would believe and obey him, God’s agent or shaliach.
What we have, then, is a highly organized, structured, prayer that indicates what Paul tells us later in the Apostolic Age:
33 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
40 But all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner.
The Beginning of the Prayer:
The Beginning of the Prayer:
1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,
1 Ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἐπάρας τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν εἶπεν, Πάτερ, ἐλήλυθεν ἡ ὥρα· δόξασόν σου τὸν υἱόν, ἵνα ὁ υἱὸς δοξάσῃ σέ,
“Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said”
= These things - used over 60x’s in John.
To what does this refer?
33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
Two things to consider:
The “things” seem to form a continuity with v.16:33, this referring to all that He said before.
All that He has said to the disciples to this point.
16:1, 4, 6, 12, 17, 33.
v.16:30
There also seems to be a break with all that Jesus said as well in order to begin this section, the prayer.
Abrupt indicative statement - v.1
It gives the sense that He stops in order to simply pray.
He can say no more.
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The structure of this prayer must be significant.
Jesus could not say what He wanted to say to His disciples, so now He turns to prayer.
The Purpose of the Prayer:
The Purpose of the Prayer:
John 17:1 (NASB95)
1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,
Jesus’ own glory puts the Father on display.
What does this mean?
39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
It seems that the “glory” Jesus is speaking of here is the glory of His resurrected state.
1 Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. 2 And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. 4 Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!” 6 When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground and were terrified. 7 And Jesus came to them and touched them and said, “Get up, and do not be afraid.” 8 And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus Himself alone. 9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”
7 “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.
cf.
33 that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today i have begotten You.’
3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they. 5 For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again, “I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me”?
5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”;
1 Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Jesus has already “glorified” the Father:
4 “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
But, with His death and resurrection, He will glorify Him again:
5 “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Then, however, WE will receive THIS SAME GLORY!!!
22 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
next week, we will continue in this prayer to our Father.
