John 17:4
I have glorified you on earth. I have completed the work that you gave me to accomplish.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
In Context
Cross References
John 4:34Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
John 9:3Jesus responded: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.
John 13:31Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said: “Now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
John 14:13And whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 15:10If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.
Acts 20:24But I dread none of these things. Neither do I consider my life to be more precious because it is my own, provided that in some way I may complete my own course and that of the ministry of the Word, which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.
Matthew Henry on John 17:2-6
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father,… Read the whole commentary →