John 17:4

I have glorified Better, I glorified. In confident anticipation Christ looks backs from the point when all shall be accomplished, and speaks of the whole work of redemption as one act. Our translators have been very capricious throughout this chapter, rendering aorists as perfects and perfects as aorists. Comp. John 17:6; John 17:8; John 17:18; John 17:21; John 17:25.

I have finished According to the right reading, having finishedor perfected. This is the way in which God is glorified, the completion of the work of revelation.

gavest me Better, hast given Me. Christ did not choose for Himself.

to do Literally, in order that I may do it:this was God's purposein giving it. It is S. John's favourite particle; comp. John 5:36 and see on John 17:3.