John 17:13

And now to You I am coming, and I speak these things in the Olam Hazeh that they may have my simcha made shleimah in themselves.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

In Context

12When I was with them, I was keeping them in the Shem of You, which You have given me, and I kept shomer, and none of them perished or was lost, except the Ben HaAvaddon (the Son of Destruction, Perdition, the state of final spiritual ruin, Gehinnom), that the Kitvei Hakodesh might be fulfilled. + 17:12 Ps 41:9; 109:4,5 ,7,8

14I have given to them the dvar of You and the Olam Hazeh has had sin'as chinom (hatred without cause) of them, because they are not of the Olam Hazeh, just as I am not of the Olam Hazeh.

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Cross References

Psalms 43:4Then will I go unto the Mizbe'ach of Elohim, 1 unto El my exceeding joy; 1 yea, upon the kinnor will I praise Thee, 1 O Elohim Elohai. 1

John 3:29The one having the Kallah (bride) is the Choson (Bridegroom), + 3:29 i.e., Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach but the Shoshvin (the Chosonʼs best man), the one having stood and hearing him with simcha, rejoices because of the kol (voice) of the Choson (Bridegroom). Therefore, this simcha of mine has been made sheleimah (complete).

John 15:11These things I have spoken to you that the simcha of me may be in you and the simcha of you may be made shleimah.

John 16:33These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have shalom. In the Olam Hazeh you have tribulation; but have lev same'ach. I have conquered the Olam Hazeh.

Romans 14:17For the Malchut Hashem is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of tzedek (righteousness), + 14:17 Dan 9:24 shalom (peace) and simcha b'Ruach Hakodesh.

Hebrews 12:2Fixing our gaze on the Mekhonen (Founder) of our + 12:2 Orthodox Messianic Jewish faith, and the One who makes it Shleimut — Yehoshua, who because of the simcha set before him, endured HaEtz HaMoshiach, disregarding its bushah (shame), and “sat down at the right hand of the throne of G-d.” + 12:2 Ps 110:1

Matthew Henry on John 17:12-17

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled… Read the whole commentary →

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