John 17:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ”

• John 17:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Have glorified thee - In my instructions and life. See his discourses everywhere, the whole tendency of which is to put honor on God. I have finished the work - Compare John 19:30 . When he...

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• John 17:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus prays with full consciousness that the crisis of His earthly career is come. Will His death prove the annihilation of His person and work, or its glorification, the transition to a higher form...

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• John 17:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  on. Greek. epi. App-104. earth . App-129. I have finished . The texts read "having finished". Compare John 4:34 ; John 5:36 ; John 19:30 . gavest . hast given. to do . in order that (G...

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• John 17:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. I have glorified thee. His reason for saying this is, that God had been made known to the world both by the doctrine of Christ, and by his miracles; and the glory of God is, when we kn...

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• John 17:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1709 OUR LORD’S DYING APPEAL TO GOD John 17:4-5 . I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thin...

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• John 17:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. I have glorified thee - Our Lord, considering himself as already sacrificed for the sin of the world, speaks o...

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• John 17:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I have glorified thee on the earth, &c.— "I have all along invariably intended and displayed thy glory, in the whole of my doctrine, miracles, and life, and am ready to honour upon earth all th...

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• John 17:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do - or, keeping t...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work... — Better, I glorified Thee on earth: I finished the work... The former sentence is.explained by the latter. God was glorified in th...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jesus Prays for His Own John 17:1-10 In Christ's own oratory we hear Him pray. But how wonderful! There is a tone of expectant faith in this marvelous prayer of assured trust, as if He knew tha...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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: (2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, th...

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• John 17:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE WORK OF LIFE ‘I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.’ John 17:4 If we might each choose his own epitaph, who would not choose this if he...

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• John 17:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I have glorified thee on the earth ,.... This is made use of as a reason and argument, why the Father should glorify him: Christ glorified his Father personally, as he held forth and expressed the g...

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• John 17:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Ver. 4. That thou gavest me to do ] Our Saviour counts his work a gift; so should we take it for a favour,...

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• John 17:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I have glorified thee on earth My doctrine, example, and miracles have manifested thy glory here on earth. I have finished the work thou gavest me to do I have almost finished the work which I un...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Intercessory Prayer.       1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glor...

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• John 17:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I have glorified thee on the earth; by preaching the gospel, by living up to the rule of thy law, by the miracles which I have wrought. God could not be glorified by Christ, by the addition of any...

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• John 17:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus' Dedication of Himself ( John 17:1-5 ). In opening His final discourse in John 13:31 Jesus had said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. And God will glorify Him...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 17:4 I do not think that here in this text our Lord intended to refer to the final and completing act the blood-shedding which was remission. I believe He reviewed His life the subjection, th...

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• John 17:4 - 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; This is in a very special sense our Lord's prayer. What a word that is from the lips of...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  These words spake Jesus Christ’s prayer for Himself I. THE CIRCUMSTANCE. 1. The place--probably the west bank of the Kidron; but to a devout soul any spot serves as an oratory ( John 4:21 ;...

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• John 17:4 - 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 17:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Christ's Great Sacerdotal Prayer. Christ prays for His own glorification:

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• John 17:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Timothy 4:7 ; Acts 20:24 ; John 12:28 ; John 13:31 ; John 13:32 ; John 14:13 ; John 14:31 ; John 15:10 ; John 19:30 ; John 4:34 ; John 5:36 ; John 9:3

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• John 17:4 - 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...

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• John 17:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I have finished the work — Thus have I glorified thee, laying the foundation of thy kingdom on earth.

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