John 17:23
I in union with them and thou with me — that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22I have given them the honour which thou has given me, that they may be one as we are one —
Cross References
John 3:17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
John 13:35It is by this that every one will recognise you as my disciples — by your loving one another.”
John 14:23“Whoever loves me,” Jesus answered, “will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
John 17:21that they all may be one — that as thou, Father, art in union with us — and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.
John 17:26I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also.”
1 Corinthians 1:30But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God’s will, became not only our Wisdom, but also our Righteousness, Holiness, and Deliverance,
Matthew Henry on John 17:21-24
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved… Read the whole commentary →