John 17:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. ”

John 17:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That thou shouldest take them out of the world - Though they were going into trials and persecutions, yet Jesus did not pray that they might be removed soon from them. It was better that they sho...
John 17:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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,...
John 17:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 problem...
John 17:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

from . out of. Greek. ek, as in the former clause. the evil. the evil one. See on Matthew 6:13 . Compare 1 John 5:19 . Three things the Lord requested for His disciples: to be kept from the evil...
John 17:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. I ask not that thou shouldest take them out of the world. He shows in what the safety of believers (121) consists; not that they are free from every annoyance, and live in luxury and at...
John 17:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1711 PRESERVATION FROM SIN MORE DESIRABLE THAN DELIVERANCE FROM AFFLICTION John 17:15 . I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them fr...
John 17:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. That thou shouldest take them out of the world - They must not yet leave the land of Judea:...
John 17:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I pray not, &c.— "My meaning is not that, on account of these difficulties, John 17:14 thou shouldest remove them out of the world by death; I know that the purposes of thy glory, and their...
John 17:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest kee...
John 17:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
John 17:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world. — The thought may naturally have come to their minds that they would be most effectually kept from the hatred and danger of which He had s...
John 17:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
John 17:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

in the World but not of the World John 17:11-17 What is the world? The inspired definition is given in 1 John 2:16 . Enumerating her three offsprings, the Apostle goes on to say, “All that i...
John 17:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 gl...
John 17:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. (7) Now they have known that all things whatsoeve...
John 17:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

HOLY KEEPING ‘I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.’ John 17:15 But why does Christ leave His people in the world at all...
John 17:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I pray not that thou shouldest take theft of the world ,.... Either in an unusual manner, by a translation, as Enoch and Elijah were; or by death in its common form, before their time, and purely to...
John 17:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Ver. 15. That thou take them out of the world ] Many godly men, weary of the world's il...
John 17:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These things I speak in the world That is, before I leave the world; that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves I offer this prayer in behalf of my apostles, with this intention; that be...
John 17:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 f...
John 17:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, ke...
John 17:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Christ doth not pray that his Father would take up his saints out of this sinful and troublesome world into heaven, because he knew that they were to be of use to him for a time in the world; but he...
John 17:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 Ge...
John 17:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
John 17:15 - Scofield Reference Notes

world Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 4:8 ).
John 17:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

John 17:15 There are two reasons why God does not take His people out of the world, but rather keeps them in it and preserves them from the evil. One reason respects themselves the other, the worl...
John 17:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

John 17:1-2 . 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 a...
John 17:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
John 17:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

I pray for them The keeping of the saints I. THE PERSONS. “Those whom Thou hast given Me.” The disciples in contrast 1. With the world ( John 17:9 ). Christ meant, not that men, as men, were...
John 17:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION John 17:1-43 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, t...
John 17:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Word keeps in faith:
John 17:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 4:10 ; 1 John 5:18 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ; 2 Timothy 4:8 ; Ecclesiastes 9:10 ; Galatians 1:4 ; Genesis 48:16 ; Isaiah 38:18 ; Isaiah 38:19 ; Isaiah 57:1 ; Luke 11:4 ; Luke 8:...
John 17:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Prayer Chapter John 17:1-15 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 th...
John 17:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That thou wouldest take them out of the world — Not yet: but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one — Who reigns therein.

John 17:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

John 17:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

John 17:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

John 17:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

John 17:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

John 17:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

John 17:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

John 17:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

John 17:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

John 17:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

John 17:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

John 17:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

John 17:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

John 17:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John 17:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John 17:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John 17:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John 17:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

John 17:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 17:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

John 17:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

John 17:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

John 17:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

John 17:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

John 17:15 - Scofield Reference Notes

John 17:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

John 17:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

John 17:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

John 17:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

John 17:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

John 17:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

John 17:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 17:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

John 17:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes