John 17:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 17:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. …
Jeremiah 9:23-24
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: …
John 17:25
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Graces Guidance Hades Ignorance Immortality

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 that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

Joh 17:1-26. The Intercessory Prayer. (See on Joh 14:1). Had this prayer not been recorded, what reverential reader would not have exclaimed, Oh, to have been within hearing of such a prayer as that must have been, which wound up the whole of His past ministry and formed the point of transition to the dark scenes which immediately followed! But here it is, and with such signature of the Lips that…