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John 17:6-19
Good News Translation (GNT)
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6 "I have made you known to those you gave
me out of the world. They belonged to you,
and you gave them to me. They have obeyed
your word,
7 and now they know that everything you gave
me comes from you.
8 I gave them the message that you gave me,
and they received it; they know that it is true
that I came from you, and they believe that
you sent me.
9 "I pray for them. I do not pray for the world
but for those you gave me, for they belong to
you.
10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine;
and my glory is shown through them.
11 And now I am coming to you; I am no longer
in the world, but they are in the world.
Holy Father! Keep them safe by the power
of your name, the name you gave me, (a)
so that they may be one just as you and I are
one.
12 While I was with them, I kept them safe by the
power of your name, the name you gave
me. (b) I protected them, and not one of them
was lost, except the man who was bound
to be lost - so that the scripture might come
true.
13 And now I am coming to you, and I say these
things in the world so that they might have my
joy in their hearts in all its fullness.
14 I gave them your message, and the world
hated them, because they do not belong
to the world, just as I do not belong to the
world.
15 I do not ask you to take them out of the world,
but I do ask you to keep them safe from the
Evil One.
16 Just as I do not belong to the world, they do
not belong to the world.
17 Dedicate them to yourself by means of the
truth; your word is truth.
18 I sent them into the world, just as you sent me
into the world.
19 And for their sake I dedicate myself to you,
in order that they, too,may be truly dedicated
to you.
Footnotes
John 17:11 Keep them safe by the power of
your name, the name you gave me;
some manuscripts have
By the power of your name keep safe those
you have given me.
John 17:12 I kept them safe by the power of
your name, the name you gave me;
some manuscripts have
By the power of your name I kept safe those
you have given me.
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Commentary taken from
'The Applied New Testament Commentary'
(Kingsway)
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
John 17:6-19
Jesus prayed: "I have revealed you to the disciples.
They had been chosen by God in the beginning.
God took them out of Satan's hands -
and put them into Jesus' hands.
The disciples had at last realised that Jesus
had come from God, and that all the words
Jesus had spoken and the works He had performed
were really God's words and God's works.
The disciples now knew with certainty that
Jesus had come from God, to be the Messiah.
In this verse we can see three steps
to becoming a Christian.
First, a person must "accept" the words of God.
Second, he must then "know" who Jesus is;
and third, he must "believe" in Jesus and follow Him.
The faith of a true Christian is not a blind faith.
Jesus was only praying for His disciples.
This does not mean that Jesus didn't love this world.
Unbelieving mankind, was opposed to God.
Jesus' prayer for the men of the world was
that they might believe, but for those who refuse
to accept salvation through himself,
there is no other hope,
no other means of salvation.
Such men have been condemned.
Everything we have has come from God
and ultimately belongs to Him.
But then Jesus said,"... and all you have is mine."
No ordinary man can say that!
Only the Son of God can say that.
Jesus knew what great works the disciples
would do in His name.
Yet even while they were still weak and ineffective,
He had more faith in in them than they had in Him!
The disciples were to remain in the world.
Jesus did not ask that they be protected
from trouble - only from evil.
That is His prayer for us also.
God had given Jesus all power and authority.
To pray in Jesus' name is the same as
to pray in God's name.
Jesus prayed for God's protection
over the disciples so that they might be one.
Satan's main method of destroying them
would be to divide them.
Their unity among themselves must be like
the unity of the Father and the Son.
Jesus had kept them safe by God's power
and authority.
Only Judas Iscariot was lost,
so that the Scripture
(Old Testament prophecy)
might be fulfilled.
Jesus had given His disciples
God's entire teaching. They had been
called out of the world.
That is why the world hated them.
The disciples were to establish
the Christ's church in the world.
Jesus' main concern was that they
be protected from Satan.
To "sanctify" (Dedicate) means to "set apart,"
to "make holy."
This is done by God's word.
All believers are set apart for a holy purpose.
To be sanctified, we must obey
God's word, God's truth.
God's word by itself does not sanctify us;
we must obey it.
Just as Jesus came to be a witness for God,
so we are called to be witnesses for him.
By the death of Jesus,
the disciples were made holy in God's sight.
Jesus took their sins upon Himself,
and they became clean.
In the same way,
through faith in Jesus and through His death for us,
we too are sanctified and made fit for God's service.
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