John 17:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
Colossians 1:15-17
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: …
1 Peter 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
Philippians 2:6
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

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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. 5)

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…