21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. …
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 one, as we are.
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. …
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-23)Next to their purity he prays for their unity; for the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable ; and amity is amiable indeed when it is like the ointment on Aaron’s holy head, and the dew on Zion’s holy hill. Observe, I. Who are included in this prayer (John 17:20): “ Not these only , not these only that are now my disciples” (the eleven, the seventy, with others, men and women that follow…
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