John 17:1

These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: My Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2As thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he might give life eternal to as many as thou hast given him.

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Cross References

Mark 14:41And he came the third time, and said to them: Sleep on now, and take rest. The end is near; the hour is come; and lo, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Luke 22:53I was with you daily in the temple, and ye laid not hands upon me. But this is your hour, and the reign of darkness.

John 7:39(This he said of the Spirit, which they who believe in him were to receive: for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

John 11:4And Jesus said: This sickness is not that of death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.

John 12:23And Jesus answered, and said to them: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

Matthew Henry on John 17:1

This chapter is a prayer, it is the Lord's prayer, the Lord Christ's prayer. There was one Lord's prayer which he taught us to pray, and did not pray himself, for he needed not to pray for the forgiveness of sin; but this was properly and peculiarly his, and suited him only as a Mediator, and is a sample of his intercession, and yet is of use to us both for instruction and encouragement in prayer. Observe, I. The circumstances of the prayer, ver. 1 . II. The prayer itself. 1. He prays for himself, ver. 1-5 . 2. He… Read the whole commentary →

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