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People's Commentary (NT)
John 17:1
The Lord's Prayer for His Disciples
SUMMARY OF JOHN 17: The Prayer of Christ That He May Be Glorified. The
Disciples to Whom the Word Was Given. The Prayer, Not for the World,
but for Them. That They May Be Sanctified. The Prayer for Saints in
All Ages. That They May Be One. For Unity, That the World May
Believe.
These words spake Jesus. This prayer, so solemn and so tender,
would never have been recorded had it not been intended for our study
and profit, but I approach it with a feeling that it is almost too
sacred for the usual verbal and textual criticism. It is the overflow
of the full soul of the Lord in devotion to the Father, a fitting close
to the wonderful discourses beginning in chapter 13; offered in the
Upper Room, just before the Lord led his disciples out into the moonlit
night, on the way to Gethsemane. This is the real "Lord's Prayer" of
the sacred Word; the prayer of is the "disciples' prayer", taught to
them by the Lord (Matthew 6:9-13). In order to drink in its spirit, we
must realize that the Lord stands at the foot of the cross, is about to
suffer, and before the separation from his disciples and the agony and
shame of the cross, he goes to the Father in their behalf and in his
own.
Father, the hour is come. "The hour" of the great sacrifice, of the
tragedy of the cross, the hour for which Christ came into the world,
had now come.
Glorify thy Son. He was about to stoop to shame. Had he been left
in the tomb, the shame would have been complete. Christ not only prays
that he shall be "lifted up" (John 12:32) but that he may so "drink the
cup" (Matthew 20:22 Joh 18:11) that the cross itself shall be a glory.
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