John 17:20-23 NASB,NASB

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:22

Jesus continued to explain the nature of the unity that He requested from His Father. In what sense do all believers share God’s glory? Jesus probably was speaking of His bringing the full knowledge of God to them. The revelation of God results in glory for God. When believers understand and believe the revelation of God that Jesus brought, they become partakers of that glory. This is something else they share in unity with one another that the Father and the Son also share with one another.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:23

This verse advances the thought of John 17:21. Jesus wanted the unity among believers to be so great and so clear that the world would believe Jesus’ message. The world would also see that God had poured out His love on believers as well as Jesus. Notice that Jesus implied that He would indwell believers as the Father indwelt Him. All three members of the Godhead indwell the Christian (John 14:23; Romans 8:9; Colossians 1:27). God’s indwelling presence unites Christians in the body of Christ... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - John 17:20

17:20 on (d-15) Eis . see Note, 2 Timothy 1:12 . read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-26

Christ’s High-Priestly Prayer1-26. 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 in it He solemnly consecrates Himself to be priest and victim in the approaching sacrifice. The veil is drawn back for a moment from the inner sanctuary of His mind, and we are enabled to contemplate with awe and reverence the nature of that close communion which He habitually maintained with His... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:20

(20) Neither pray I for these alone.—Comp. Note on John 17:9. The thought of the work to which the Apostles are to be consecrated and sent leads on to the wider thought of the Church which shall believe through their word, and the prayer is enlarged to include them.But for them also which shall believe on me through their word.—All the best MSS. read, “but for them also which believe;” but the sense is not affected by the change. As we have again and again found in these chapters, the future of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:21

(21) That they all may be one—i.e., both “these” (the Apostles) and “them also which shall believe on Me through their word” (the whole body of believers in all times and places). He expresses in this grand thought of the unity of the whole Church the fulness of the purpose of His prayer.As thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.—The insertion of “art,” which, as the italics show, is not in the original text, weakens the sense. It is better, therefore, to omit... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:22

(22) 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 Intercessory Prayer, the future which immediately grows out of the present is regarded as present; the fulness of the glory which awaits Him at His Father’s right hand is thought of as already given to Him; and the believers who have become, and will become, one with Him, to whom He has given eternal life (John... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:23

(23) I in them, and thou in me.—These words are best regarded as a parenthesis more explicitly setting forth the thought of the union of the Father, the Son, and the believer. The thought is continued from the last verse, “That they may be one even as we are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one.” It is the thought which the words of Christ have uttered again and again, and which we yet feel that no words can utter. The disciples heard the words immediately after... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - John 17:1-26

John 17:0 During his last illness John Knox was accustomed to hear each day the seventeenth chapter of St. John's Gospel, a chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and the fifty-third of Isaiah. On the last day of his life (Monday, November 24, 1572) a little after noon, 'he caused his wife to read the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, of the Resurrection, to whom he said, "Is not that a comfortable chapter?" A little after, "Now, for the last, I commend my soul,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - John 17:1-26

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 gavest Him authority over all flesh, that whatsoever Thou hast given Him, to them He should give eternal life. And this is life eternal, that they should know Thee the only true God, and Him whom Thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:22

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 17:23

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - John 17:20

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - John 17:1-26

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:20

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 17:23

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - John 17:1-26

Expositor's Bible Commentary - John 17:1-26

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