These (1) words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, (2) Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: (1) Jesus Christ, the everlasting high Priest, being ready to immediately offer himself up, by solemn prayers consecrates himself to God the Fa... [ Continue Reading ]
As thou hast given him power over (a) all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. (a) Over all men.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, and to include himself and the Holy Spirit, for he immediately joins the knowledge of the Father an... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: (c) thine they were, and thou (d) gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. (3) First of all he prays for his disciples by whom he would have the rest of his disciples gathered together, and commends them unto the... [ Continue Reading ]
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be (c) one, as we [are]. (c) He prays that his people may peaceably agree and be joined together in one, that as the Godhead is on... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. (4) He shows what type of deliverance he means: not that they should be in no danger, but that in being preserved from all they might prove by experience that the doctrine of salvation is... [ Continue Reading ]
(f) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (f) That is, make them holy: and that thing is said to be holy which is dedicated to God and belongs to him alone.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. (5) Moreover, he adds that the apostles have a calling common with him, and therefore that they must be held up by the very same virtue to give themselves up wholly to God, by which Christ, who was first, did con... [ Continue Reading ]
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the (g) truth. (g) The true and substantial sanctification of Christ is contrasted with the outward purifyings of the law.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (6) Secondly, he offers to God the Father all of his, that is, all those who will believe in him by the doctrine of the apostles: that as he cleaves unto the Father, receiving from him all fulness, s... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it]: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. (7) He communicates the knowledge of the Father with his own little by little, which knowledge is most full in Christ the mediator, that they may in him be be... [ Continue Reading ]