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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.
17 aSanctify them by Your truth. bYour word is truth.  
18 aAs You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.  
19 And afor their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.  

Jesus Prays for All Believers

20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who1 will believe in Me through their word;  
21 athat they all may be one, as bYou, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.  
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What Does John 17:6 Mean?



John 17:6

Jesus Christ refers to God's name three times in this brief and exceedingly important prayer! The name represents what He spent His ministry revealing to us about God. He keeps us through His name both by our trusting in what it means and our obedience to how it shows we should live.

He defines eternal life as "to know God." "Know" suggests a very close intimacy, just as a husband and wife are intimate in marriage (Genesis 4:1). It indicates experiential knowledge, not theoretical. In Amos 5:4, God exclaims, "Seek Me and live!" He is saying, "Turn to Me and My way of life; seek to know Me," not "Search for Me," because He has already revealed Himself to us. He is saying, "Seek to know Me by living the same way I do." That is how experiential knowledge of Him becomes an intimate knowing of Him. He will walk with such people (Amos 3:3).

Aionis, the word translated "eternal," deals less with duration of life (although it is included), than it does with quality of life. Living endlessly is not necessarily good. Would anyone want to live forever with a demon's quality of life? True eternal life is the life of God. To possess it means experiencing now some of its splendor because it is being lived and producing its glorious fruits.

Psalm 9:10 adds, "And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You." Those living by faith do not trust in what He is called, for that would be mere superstition. Their faith is in what He is, His character and nature, which they have experienced by seeking to live His way.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Third Commandment (1997)



John 17:6

Notice that Jesus never mentions how to pronounce the Father's name. Salvation is not based on its pronunciation! Far more important is doing the will of God, an absolute necessity in truly fearing His name. The Father's name guards us from evil by the Word of God, which is truth.

Martin G. Collins
The Third Commandment

Related Topics: God's Name | God's Name, Hallowing | God's Name, Honoring | God's Name, Pronunciation of | Taking God's Name in Vain | The Third Commandment | Third Commandment




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