23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
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That 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.
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. …
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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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