4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
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Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
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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