Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17Ravenio Books, 2014. máj. 13. THIS chapter is emphatically the Lord’s prayer. That which we commonly call the Lord’s prayer He taught His disciples, but did not use Himself. The petition, “Forgive us our trespasses,” could never have been uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ. This prayer, on the other hand, is His own—His disciples were not invited to unite in it; it was a prayer they did not and could not utter. Evidently the Lord spake so as to be heard, and the disciples listened. The Holy Ghost has provided that not one petition should be lost to the church of God. We often find our Lord teaching His disciples to pray, and we read of Him spending even whole nights in prayer; but we never find Him praying with His disciples. Indeed, there would seem to be something incongruous in Christ kneeling down with His disciples for prayer; there must always have been something peculiar in His petitions. At this time His work on earth was well-nigh ended: nothing remained for Him but to die: “I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.” (v. 4.) The Last Supper was over. The Lord had dispensed to His disciples the broken bread and poured-out wine, memorials of His dying love; He had expressed to them His desire, that in remembrance of Him, they should often gather together and thus show forth His death in this illustration and their union with Himself and with each other, until His return to them in glory. He had washed their feet; He had comforted them; He had opened His whole heart to them. He now opens it for them to Him before whom “all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid;” and having poured out His soul into the ear, and into the bosom of God, He went forth into Gethsemane. May God the Spirit be with us and give unction and understanding to our hearts, while we meditate on His most precious prayer. |
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... given Him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee ... give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus ... eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him,” therefore glorify Him now ...
... give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him—and who are they? Can we set to our seal and say, “Lord, Thou hast given me”? “As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on ...
... given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” This verse contains an argument drawn by our Lord Jesus Christ from the nature and character of the commission with which His Father ...
... eternal life—is founded on the glory of the Father and the glory of the Son. “Glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given ...
... given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given.Him.” Observe further, He says: “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth”—a power He possesses and sways by virtue of His ...