John 17:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: ”

• John 17:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the glory ... - The honor which thou hast conferred on me by admitting me to union with thee, the same honor I have conferred on them by admitting them to like union with me. May be one, e...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  gayest . Here the reading should be "hast given".

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• John 17:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  22. And I have given to them the glory which thou gavest to me. Let it be observed here, that, while a pattern of perfect happiness was exhibited in Christ, he had nothing that belonged pecu...

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• John 17:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1715 THE GLORY WHICH CHRIST GIVES TO HIS PEOPLE John 17:22 . The glory which thou gavest me I hare given them . THE dignity of human nature is a favourite subject with many: nor, if...

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• John 17:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them - That is, the power to work miracles, and to prea...

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• John 17:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And the glory which thou gavest me, &c.— "Moreover, the glory of inspiration, of a divine mission, and of the power of miracles to confirm that mission, which thou gavest unto me, I have bestow...

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• John 17:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: And the glory which thou gavest ('hast given') me I have given them; that they may be one, even...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And the glory which thou gavest me (better, hast given Me ) I have given them. — Comp. John 13:32 , and in this chapter John 17:1 ; John 17:5 ; John 17:24 . Here, as all through this Interce...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - 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 17:22 - 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 17:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in...

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• John 17:22 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ‘ONE WITH HIM’ ‘The glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one.’ John 17:22 The text points to our oneness and union with Christ, by which alone w...

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• John 17:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the glory which thou gavest me ,.... Not the glory of his deity; this is the same with his Father, what he has in right of nature, and not by gift; nor can it be communicated to creatures; this...

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• John 17:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: Ver. 22. And the glory which thou, &c. ] That is, the grace, which is glory begun, as glory is...

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• John 17:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Neither pray I for these alone I do not make my apostles the only subjects of this my last prayer; I pray likewise for all such as shall by their word, whether preached or written, be brought to b...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Intercessory Prayer.       20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;  ...

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• John 17:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  By glory here some understand the heavenly glory; but then they must understand the oneness mentioned in the latter part of the verse, of the union which the saints shall have with Christ and his F...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - 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 17:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 17:1 . 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: Jesus is going forth to die, and he...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them The Church’s unity and its influence I. THE GIFT WHICH CHRIST BESTOWS ON HIS disciples. 1. What was the glory which Christ received? A glory...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Christ prays for the future believers:

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• John 17:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 1:3 ; 1 John 3:24 ; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ; 2 Corinthians 5:20 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10 ; Acts 5:41 ; Colossians 1:24 ; Ephesians 2:20 ; John 1:16 ; John 14:20 ; J...

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• John 17:22 - 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 17:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The glory which thou hast given me, I have given them — The glory of the only begotten shines in all the sons of God. How great is the majesty of Christians.

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