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John 17:6
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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.  

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

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.
8 For I have given to them the words awhich You have given Me; and they have received them, band have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that cYou sent Me.  
9 “I pray for them. aI do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.  
10 And all Mine are Yours, and aYours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.  
11 aNow I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, bkeep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one cas We are.  
12 While I was with them in the world, aI kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and bnone of them is lost cexcept the son of perdition, dthat the Scripture might be fulfilled.  
13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; aand the world has hated them because they are not of the world, bjust as I am not of the world.  
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but athat You should keep them from the evil one.  
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
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John 17:6

Have manifested thy name - The word "name" here includes the attributes or character of God. Jesus had made known his character, his law, his will, his plan of mercy - or, in other words, he had revealed God to them. The word "name" is often used to designate the person, John 15:21; Matthew 10:22; Romans 2:24; I Timothy 6:1.

Which thou gavest me - God gave them to him in his purpose. He gave them by his providence. He so ordered affairs that they heard him preach and saw his miracles; and he gave them by disposing them to follow him when he called them.

Thine they were - All men are God' s by creation and by preservation, and he has a right to do with them as seemeth good in his sight. These men he chose to designate to be the apostles of the Saviour; and he committed them to him to be taught, and then commissioned them to carry his gospel, though amid persecutions, to the ends of the world. God has a right to the services of all; and he has a right to appoint us to any labor, however humble, or hazardous, or wearisome, where we may promote his glory and honor his name.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing John 17:6:

Psalms 40:9
John 17:11
John 17:12
John 17:26
Hebrews 2:12
1 Peter 1:2

 

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