John 17:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctifieda through the truth. ”

• John 17:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I sanctify myself - I consecrate myself exclusively to the service of God. The word “sanctify” does not refer here to personal sanctification, for he had no sin, but to setting himself apart enti...

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• John 17:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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 th...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  for their sakes . on behalf of (Greek. huper. App-104.) them. I sanctify Myself . I dedicate or consecrate Myself. This shows the meaning of sanctify; not making holy as to moral character, but...

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• John 17:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  19. And for their sales I sanctify myself. By these words he explains more clearly from what source that sanctification flows, which is completed in us by the doctrine of the Gospel. It i...

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• John 17:19 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1713 THE END FOR WHICH CHRIST DEDICATED HIMSELF TO GOD John 17:19 . For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth . THE sanctification of me...

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• John 17:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. I sanctify myself - I consecrate and devote myself to death - that I may thereby purchase eternal salvatio...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might (or 'may') be sanctified through the t...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself. — Comp. Note on John 17:17 . The consecration here thought of is that to the work which was immediately before Him — the offering Himself as a sacrifice. The...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE CONSECRATION OF PERSONALITY ‘And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.’ John 17:19 The translation is perhaps a little old-fashioned at...

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• John 17:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself ,.... Which is to be understood, not of his making himself holy; for he never was a sinner, and so stood in no need of sanctification: he was made like unto us,...

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• John 17:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Ver. 19. And for their sakes do I sanctify ] As both priest, altar, and sacrifice; and this Christ did...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I sanctify myself, here, is no more than, I set myself apart, as a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing in the sight of God: and indeed sanctifying, in the ancient notion of it under the law, did...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 17:19 Sanctification I. The sanctification of which our Lord speaks in this place, is the consecration of the whole creature, of the whole being, to the spiritual purpose of the service of o...

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• John 17:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 hi...

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• John 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - 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 17:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Word keeps in faith:

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• John 17:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:7 ; 2 Corinthians 4:15 ; 2 Corinthians 8:9 ; 2 Timothy 2:10 ; Hebrews 10:29 ; Hebrews 10:5-10 ; Hebrews 2:11 ; Hebrews 9:13 ; Hebrews 9:18 ; Hebrews 9...

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• John 17:19 - 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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• John 17:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I sanctify myself — I devote myself as a victim, to be sacrificed.

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