geneva - 17

geneva@John:17:1 @ These (note:)Jesus Christ, the everlasting high Priest, being ready to immediately offer himself up, by solemn prayers consecrates himself to God the Father as a sacrifice, and us together with himself. Therefore this prayer was from the beginning, is, and will be to the end of the world, the foundation and ground of the Church of God.(:note) words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, He first declares that as he came into the world so that the Father might show in him (being apprehended by faith) his glory in saving his elect, so he applied himself to that only: and therefore he desires from the Father that he would bless the work which he had finished. Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

geneva@John:17:2 @ As thou hast given him power over (note:)Over all men.(:note) all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

geneva@John:17:3 @ And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the (note:)He calls the Father the only true God in order to set him against all false gods, and to include himself and the Holy Spirit, for he immediately joins the knowledge of the Father and the knowledge of himself together, and according to his accustomed manner sets forth the whole Godhead in the person of the Father. So is the Father alone said to be King, immortal, wise, dwelling in light which no man can attain unto, and invisible; (Rom_16:27; 1Ti_1:17).(:note) only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

geneva@John:17:4 @ I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe.

geneva@John:17:5 @ And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.

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geneva@John:17:7 @ Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.

geneva@John:17:8 @ For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, & haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:17:9 @ I pray for them: I pray not for the worlde, but for them which thou hast giuen me: for they are thine.

geneva@John:17:10 @ And al mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

geneva@John:17:11 @ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be (note:)He prays that his people may peaceably agree and be joined together in one, that as the Godhead is one, so they may be of one mind and one consent together.(:note) one, as we [are].

geneva@John:17:12 @ While I was with them in the worlde, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the childe of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

geneva@John:17:13 @ And now come I to thee, and these things speake I in the worlde, that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues.

geneva@John:17:14 @ I haue giuen them thy word, & the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

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geneva@John:17:16 @ They are not of the worlde, as I am not of the world.

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geneva@John:17:19 @ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the (note:)The true and substantial sanctification of Christ is contrasted with the outward purifyings of the law.(:note) truth.

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geneva@John:17:21 @ That they all may bee one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: euen that they may be also one in vs, that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:17:22 @ And the glory that thou gauest me, I haue giuen them, that they may be one, as we are one,

geneva@John:17:23 @ I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

geneva@John:17:24 @ Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.

geneva@John:17:25 @ O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

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