1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
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I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. …
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. …
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: …
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here we have, I. The circumstances of this prayer, John 17:1. Many a solemn prayer Christ made in the days of his flesh (sometimes he continued all night in prayer), but none of his prayers are recorded so fully as this. Observe, 1. The time when he prayed this prayer; when he had spoken these words , had given the foregoing farewell to his disciples, he prayed this prayer in their hearing; so tha…
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