3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. …
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: …
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
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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