John 17:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

John 17:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Acts 20:24
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.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
John 14:31
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.
John 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Topics

Atonement Duty Obedience Plan of Salvation Righteous Salvation Sanctification Sin

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. 4)

4-5. I have glorified thee on the earth--rather, “I glorified” (for the thing is conceived as now past). I have finished--I finished. the work which thou gavest me to do--It is very important to preserve in the translation the past tense, used in the original, otherwise it might be thought that the work already “finished” was only what He had done before uttering that prayer; whereas it will be ob…