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John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.
And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.
Verse John 17:3. _THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL_] The salvation purchased by Christ, and given to them who believe, is called _life_: 1. Because the life of man was _forfeited_ to Divine justice; and the sacr...
THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL - This is the source of eternal life; or it is in this manner that it is to be obtained. The knowledge of God and of his Son Jesus Christ is itself a source of unspeakable and ete...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Finished Work. (John 17:1 .)_ 2. The Father's Name and the Father's Gift. (John 17:6 .) 3. Not of the World but Kept in it. (John 17:11 .) 4. Sanctification of Himself for His O...
JOHN 13:33 TO JOHN 17:26. THE LAST DISCOURSES AND PRAYER. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problems of st...
Jesus prays with full consciousness that the crisis of His earthly career is come. Will His death prove the annihilation of His person and work, or its glorification, the transition to a higher form o...
THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL, THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THEE, ETC. The knowledge of God as manifested in Jesus Christ is the first requisite to salvation and life eternal. When there is full knowledge,. recogniti...
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify the Son that the Son may glorify you. Glorify him, just as you gave him authority over...
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS (John 17:1-5)...
THIS, &c. Not. definition of eternal life, but the purpose (Greek. _hina, as_ in John 17:1) for which it is given. KNOW. App-132. TRUE. App-175., and p. 1511. GOD. App-98. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. SE...
The Prayer for Himself The Son was sent to give to men eternal life, which consists in the knowledge of God. This work the Son has completed to the glory of the Father, and therefore prays to be glor...
_And this is life eternal_ More exactly, BUT THE LIFE ETERNAL IS THIS. - _The_life eternal" means that which has just been mentioned; and -is this" means -this is what it consists in:" comp. John 3:19...
THE PRAYER FOR HIMSELF The Son was sent to give to men eternal life, which consists in the knowledge of God. This work the Son has completed to the glory of the Father, and therefore prays to be glor...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΥΣΙΝ (ADGLYΔΛ) for γινώσκωσι: but γινώσκωσιν (אBC) is probably right. 3. ΑὝΤΗ ΔΈ. _But_ THE _life eternal_ (just mentioned) _is this_: ‘is’ not ‘will be’ (see on John 3:36; John 5:24; John 6:47...
Ver 1. These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you: 2. As you have given him power over all fles...
ΪΝΑ (G2443) что, пояснительное значение. ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. _Conj._ с ΊΝ выражает содержание жизни вечной. Также может выражать результат, ΆΠΈΣΤΕΙΛΑΣ _aor. ind....
AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL;— _But,_ or _now, this is the eternal life,_ &c. "Now, the way to this eternal life, the beginnings and earnests of it, the evidences of right and title to it, lie, not only i...
PRAYER FOR HIMSELF _Text: John 17:1-5_ 1 These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; _glorify thy_ Son, that the Son may glorify thee: 2 even a...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 17:1-5 The following is an Analysis of the first section of John 17: 1. The Son praying, verse 1. In John 17 the veil is drawn aside, and we are admitted with...
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL [ hee (G3588 ) aioonios (G166 ) zoon ...
12 The words of our Lord preserved for us in the four accounts of His life come very far from giving us all that He had to say. They were sadly limited by the incapacity of His hearers. Even His close...
17:3 the (i-4) I add the article, because it throws the emphasis on 'eternal,' as in the Greek....
ETERNAL LIFE consists in a knowledge of God, and of Jesus as the Messiah sent from God, i.e. as a preëxistent, divine being. 'Knowledge' here is not intellectual knowledge, but knowledge based on the...
CHRIST'S HIGH-PRIESTLY PRAYER 1-26. Christ's Great Intercession for Himself, for the Apostles, and for the World. This prayer is often, and suitably called Christ's 'High-priestly prayer,' because in...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS PRAYS ON HIS OWN BEHALF 17:1-5 V1 After Jesus said all these things, he looked up towards heaven. He prayed: ‘...
AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL. — For these words, which are more frequent in St. John than in any other of the New Testament writers, comp. John 3:15; John 3:36; John 5:24; John 5:
XVI. _ CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER._ "These things spake Jesus; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify Thee: even as Thou gave...
αὕτη δέ ἐστιν ἡ αἰώνιος ζωή ἵνα … On ἵνα in this construction, see Burton, 213, and _cf._ John 15:8; ὅτι in John 3:19 is not quite equivalent. In Isaiah 37:20 God is designated ὁ Θεὸς μόνος, and in...
JESUS PRAYS FOR HIS OWN John 17:1-10 In Christ's own oratory we hear Him pray. But how wonderful! There is a tone of expectant faith in this marvelous prayer of assured trust, as if He knew that He w...
This chapter records for us words of our Lord addressed to His Father. In the first movement He was dealing strictly and only with relationships between Himself and the Father, referring to a past glo...
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the (b) only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (b) He calls the Father the only true God in order to set him against all false gods,...
This is life everlasting; that is, the way to life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent [2]. The Arians, from these words, pretended that the...
CHAPTER 24. VALEDICTORY PRAYER John 17. O the infinite moment, interest, value, and consolation of this prayer! Because it is the last, regular, formal petition our Savior offered for His disciples i...
1. The prayer of Jesus has three parts: the first, a prayer for Himself, John 17:1-5; the second, a prayer for His disciples, John 17:9-19; and the third, a prayer for all subsequent believers, John 1...
THIRD SECTION: 17:1-26. THE PRAYER. The shout of victory with which Jesus closed His conversations with the disciples was an anticipation of faith. To transform the victory which was announced into a...
VV. 3 establishes the connection between the idea of _glorifying God_ (John 17:1) and that of _giving eternal life_ (John 17:2): to live is to know God; to glorify God is, accordingly, to give life by...
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: (2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, tha...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
_THE ONLY TRUE GOD 1_ ‘And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.’ John 17:3 The truth and the reality of a man’s religion depend...
3._And this is eternal life _He now describes the manner of bestowing _life, _namely, when he enlightens the elect in the true knowledge of God; for he does not now speak of the enjoyment of_life _whi...
chapter 17 is divided thus: John 17:1-5 relate to Christ Himself, to His taking His position in glory, to His work, and to that glory as belonging to His Person, and the result of His work. John 17:1-...
AND THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL,.... That is, the beginning and pledge of it, the way unto it, and means of it, and what will certainly issue in it: THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THEE, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND JESUS C...
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Ver. 3. _That they may know thee_] To know God in the face of Christ is heaven beforehand...
_These words spake Jesus_ Namely, the words recorded in the three preceding Chapter s; _and lifted up his eyes to heaven_ Put himself in the posture of prayer. The following has been called Our Lord's...
THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL; the right knowledge of God and Jesus Christ gives endless spiritual life to the soul. The knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ is as important to men as their eternal salvation....
HIS MINISTRY OF INTERCESSION (v.1) In Chapter s 13 to 16 the Lord has completed what He had to tell His disciples, ending with the empowering ministry of chapter 16. He has made every provision for t...
1-5 Our Lord prayed as a man, and as the Mediator of his people; yet he spoke with majesty and authority, as one with and equal to the Father. Eternal life could not be given to believers, unless Chr...
Those who deny the Divine nature of Christ, think they have a mighty argument from, this text, where Christ, (as they say), speaking to his Father, calleth him THE ONLY TRUE GOD. But divines answer, t...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians The Evangelists, too, when they declared that the one Father was "the only true God,"[15] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Now to whom is it not clear, that...
John 17:3 And G1161 this G3778 is G2076 (G5748) eternal G166 life G2222 that G2443 know G1097 ...
JESUS PRAYS IN THE UPPER ROOM (JOHN 17). Depending on how we interpret John 14:31 this prayer appears either to have been made in the Upper Room, or at some spot on the way to the Garden of Gethsemane...
JESUS' DEDICATION OF HIMSELF (JOHN 17:1). In opening His final discourse in John 13:31 Jesus had said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. And God will glorify Him in Himsel...
“And this is life eternal, that they should know you the only true God and him whom you did send, even Jesus Messiah.” This life, we now learn, consists of men entering a plane whereby they “know the...
John 17:3. AND THIS IS THE ETERNAL LIFE, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO KNOW THEE THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND HIM WHOM THOU DIDST SEND, JESUS, AS CHRIST. The article is used before ‘eternal life' in order to carry...
SHOULD KNOW (γινωσκωσιν). Present active subjunctive with ινα (subject clause), "should keep on knowing."EVEN JESUS CHRIST (Ιησουν Χριστον). See John 1:17 for the only other place in John's Gospel...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ This is in a very special sense our Lord's prayer. What a word that is from the lips of Jes...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted Up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son; that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ Christ's great intercessory prayer beg...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all fl...
This chapter contains the marvellous prayer of our Great High Priest. May the Holy Spirit apply its teaching to our hearts as we read it! John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes t...
This matchless chapter contains that great intercessory prayer of Christ for his people which may most properly be called «the Lord's prayer.» John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his e...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ That tremendous hour which was the very hinge of history, that hour in which he must suffer...
Can there be found, in all the records of mankind, in all the documents that have ever been preserved, anything that can match this record of our Saviour's great intercessory prayer? He seems to pray...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ Jesus is going forth to die, and he kn...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all fl...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, thee hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:_ The hour has come. The most important...
John 17:1. _These words spake Jesus, and, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;_ The hour to which he had so long looked forward, the hour which he had anticipated with ar...
CONTENTS: Jesus' prayer of intercession. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, Judas. CONCLUSION: If God be our Father, we have an intercessor to appear for us continually to guarantee our safe delivery...
John 17:1. _Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son._ By Father the divinity is understood, the Father being the fountain of deity. The hour of my passion being come, glorify thy Son by speedily rai...
AND THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE. See 1 John 5:20. As we actually live "God's life," we _know_ him; and the New Testament shows us how to live "God's life....
_This is life eternal_ THE EVERLASTING LIFE I. THE INESTIMABLE BLESSING OF WHICH OUR LORD SPEAKS. Life is a great boon. “My kingdom,” a dying monarch is reported to have said, “for an inch of time.”...
_These words spake Jesus_ CHRIST’S PRAYER FOR HIMSELF I. THE CIRCUMSTANCE. 1. The place--probably the west bank of the Kidron; but to a devout soul any spot serves as an oratory (John 4:21; 1 Timot...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 17:2 THAT THEY KNOW YOU implies an intimate relationship with God as a person. THE ONLY TRUE GOD. See Deuteronomy 6:4
1-25 CHAPTER 17 VER. 1. _hese words spake Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come: glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee_. These are the last words of...
_But this is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent._ This saying agrees exactly with what precedes. Christ gives the reason for seeking to be glorified. Bec...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 17:1. THESE THINGS SPAKE, ETC. (ταῦτα ἐλάλησεν).—The reference is to the discourse just ended. LIFTED UP.—From the troubles of earth and time the mind and soul ar...
EXPOSITION JOHN 17:1 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 human...
These words spake Jesus, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven (John 17:1), Now He is finished with His disciples and He turns now to the Father. He said, "I am not alone; the Father is with Me." And co...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 John 4:14;...
Life eternal. With the article : the life eternal. Defining the words in the previous verse. The life eternal (of which I spoke) is this. That [ι ν α]. Expressing the aim. Might know [γ ι ν ω σ κ ω σ...
LOOKING BACKWARD John 17:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of John contains the prayer which Jesus Christ uttered in the upper room after He had taken of the Passover and had broken the...
THE PRAYER CHAPTER John 17:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The seventeenth chapter of John contains the prayer which Christ spoke just as He entered the Garden of Gethsemane, and went from there to the Cross....
To know — By loving, holy faith, thee the only true God — The only cause and end of all things; not excluding the Son and the Holy Ghost, no more than the Father is excluded from being Lord, 1 Corinth...
That is, "This is the true way and means to obtain eternal life, namely by the true knowledge of God the Father, and of Jesus Christ the Mediator, who was commissioned and sent by his Father to accomp...