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5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

John 17:5

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …

  • Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: …

  • Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

  • I and my Father are one.

  • Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

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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