John 17:6-8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I have manifested thy name All thy attributes; and in particular thy paternal relation to believers; to the men which thou gavest me out of the world The apostles; and so John 17:12. Thine they were By creation, by preservation, by descent from Abraham, and by being members of thy church, under the Mosaic dispensation; and thou gavest them me By giving them faith in what I have spoken; and they have kept thy word Have readily embraced, and hitherto have resolutely adhered to and obeyed thy gospel. Now they have known that all things Which I have done and spoken, are of thee, and consequently are right and true. They are fully persuaded, “that the commission whereby I act, the doctrine of salvation which I teach, the miracles which I perform, and the authority with which I am clothed, are all really derived from thee.” In this, indeed, they have acted upon the surest evidence; for I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me I have taught them no other doctrine but that which thou gavest me to teach. And they have received them Being fully sensible that my doctrine is in all points agreeable to thy blessed nature and perfections, they have received it as such; and have known surely that I came out from thee That I am no impostor, but a prophet, truly commissioned by thee to reveal thy will to mankind. And While I have been rejected by an ungrateful world, they have regarded me as the true Messiah; and have believed that thou didst send me On the great errand of man's salvation.