John 17:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. ”

• John 17:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  With thine own self - In heaven, granting me a participation of the same honor which the Father has. He had just said that he had glorified God on the earth, he now prays that God would glorify h...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  now. Greek. nun, as in John 13:31 . with . beside. Greek. para. App-104. glory. Greek. doxa. See p. 1511. before . Greek. pro. App-104. world . App-129.

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• John 17:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  5. The glory which I had with thee. He desires to be glorified with the Father, not that the Father may glorify him secretly, without any witnesses, but that, having been received into...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Before the world was - That is, from eternity, before there was any creation - so the...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. And now - `the whole purpose I am here for being accomplished,' O Father,...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self. — These words are exactly parallel with the commencement of the previous verse. “I,” “Thou,” “Thee — Me,” “on earth,” “with Thine own self.”...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self ,.... Not with his perfections, these he had, they dwelt bodily in him; or with his nature, in which he was one with him; but as Mediator, with...

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• John 17:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Ver. 5. With the glory which I had, &c. ] Our Saviour then is no upstart God,...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Let the glory which, as to my Divine nature, I had with thee before the foundation of the world, be communicated also to my human nature, that my whole person may be made glorious. From hence is easi...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - 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 17:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

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• John 17:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 1:2 ; 1 Peter 1:20 ; Colossians 1:15-17 ; Hebrews 1:10 ; Hebrews 1:3 ; John 1:1-3 ; John 1:18 ; John 10:30 ; John 14:9 ; John 17:24 ; John 3:13 ; Matthew 25:34 ; Philippians 2:6 ;...

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• John 17:5 - 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 17:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The glory which I had — He does not say received — He always had it, till he emptied himself of it in the days of his flesh.

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