John 17:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. ”

• John 17:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  As . Even as. hast sent . didst send. into. Greek. eis. App-104. have... sent . sent.

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• John 17:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. As thou hast sent me into the world. He confirms his prayer by another argument; namely, because the calling of Christ and of the apostles is the same calling, and is common to both. “I...

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• John 17:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. As thou hast sent me - so have I also sent them - The apostles had the same commission which Christ had, considered...

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• John 17:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  They are not of the world,— "It is with great pleasure that I reflect on their being separated from the world, both in principles and practice, and that in this respect they so nearly resemble me....

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• John 17:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. As thou hast sent ('sentest') me into the world, even so have I also sent ('sent I also') them into the worl...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As thou hast sent me into the world. — Better, As Thou didst send Me. The tense points out the definite moment of His mission. (Comp. John 10:36 .) So have I also sent them into the world. —...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Master's Commission John 17:18-26 In John 10:36 we are told that the Father consecrated our Redeemer to the great work by which He had brought nigh them that were far off, Ephesians 2:13...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  As thou hast sent me into the world ,.... Which does not suppose inequality of nature, nor change of place, nor any force upon him, nor disrespect unto him, or a state of separation from his Father;...

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• John 17:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. Ver. 18. Even so have I sent them, &c. ] Therefore they have need that there be put upon them of my Spirit,...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Intercessory Prayer.       17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.   18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even...

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• John 17:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That is: My Father, they have not thrust themselves into their employment, they have not run without sending; for as I am thine apostle, as I was sent by thee, so I have sent them. The apostles indee...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - Scofield Reference Notes

  world Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 4:8 ).

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• John 17:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 eye...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world Christian missions and missionaries: their ideals It is our privilege to enter at once, by the open door of this utt...

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• John 17:18 - 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...

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• John 17:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Word keeps in faith:

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• John 17:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 5:20 ; Ephesians 3:7 ; Isaiah 61:1-3 ; John 20:21 ; Matthew 23:34

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• John 17:18 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Looking Backward John 17:1-26 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 bro...

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