John 17:4 - Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

John 17:4

2 ^aas You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He¹ should give eternal life to as many ^bas You have given Him.

3 And ^athis is eternal life, that they may know You, ^bthe only true God, and Jesus Christ ^cwhom You have sent.

4 ^aI have glorified You on the earth. ^bI have finished the work ^cwhich You have given Me to do.

5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together¹ with Yourself, with the glory ^awhich I had with You before the world was.

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6 ^a“I have¹ manifested Your name to the men ^bwhom You have given Me out of the world. ^cThey were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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John 17:4

I glorified thee on the earth (egw se edocasa epi thv ghv). Verse John 17:3 is parenthetical and so verse John 17:4 goes on after verse John 17:2. He had prayed for further glorification.

Having accomplished (teleiwsav). First aorist active participle of teleiow, old verb from teleiov (perfect). Used in John 4:34 by Jesus with to ergon as here. That was Christ's "food" (brwma) and joy. Now as he faces death he has no sense of failure as some modern critics say, but rather fulness of attainment as in John 19:30 (tetelestai). Christ does not die as a disappointed man, but as the successful messenger, apostle (apesteilav, verse John 17:3) of the Father to men.

Thou hast given (dedwkav). Perfect active indicative of didwmi, regarded as a permanent task.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 17:4:

John 4:34
John 5:36
John 17:1
John 17:4
John 17:6
John 17:23
James 1:4

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