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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These words spake Jesus,.... Referring to his sermons and discourses, his words of comfort, advice, direction, and instruction, delivered in the three preceding chapters: and lift up his eyes to heaven; the seat of the divine majesty, the throne of his Father. This is a prayer gesture. It is said (c) of R. Tanchuma, that הגביה פניו לשמים, "he lift...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; This is in a very special sense our Lord’s prayer. What a word that is from the lips of Jesus, “Father”! This was the night of his deepest sorrow and his heaviest woe, but he begins his prayer with this tender expression, “Father, the hour is come;” the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Here the doctrines of a general and a particular redemption sweetly blend “As thou hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: The great design of Christ, all through his life on earth, was to glorify the Father. He came to save his people, but that was not his first or his chief aim. It was his object, through the salvation...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: What a sight it must have been to see the Divine Intercessor in this his last great prayer before he poured out his soul unto death! We can never read this chapter so as fully to enter into its...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; — That tremendous hour which was the very hinge of history, — that hour in which he must suffer, and bleed, and die, to pay up the ransom price for his people: “Father, the hour is come;” — Joh_17:1. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven,- Not his hands, as we do who are poor suppliants; but his eyes, indicating whither his thoughts went. He “lifted up his eyes to heaven,”- Joh_17:1.And said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. No mere man would have dared to pray such a prayer as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: Jesus is going forth to die, and he knows it; yet he prays to his Father, “Glorify thy Son.” There was no way of his coming to that glory except by passing through tears, and blood, and agony, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: Christ’s great intercessory prayer begins with his appeal to his Father to glorify his Son. Christ knew all that he would have to suffer during that “hour” to which he had looked forward from eternity,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Here we have the two doctrines of a general and a particular redemption. Through his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, thee hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: The hour has come. The most important, the darkest, the most dreadful hour of Christ’s life was come. But he had only one thought in his mind. “Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These words spake Jesus, and, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; The hour to which he had so long looked forward, the hour which he had anticipated with ardent desire: “The hour is come.” On the very night that Jesus prayed this prayer, Luke’s record tells us, “When the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Glorify thy Son that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. In these words we have both the general and the special aspects of redemption. Christ has received power over all flesh, but with this peculiar design, that he should give eternal life...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As thou hast given him power over all flesh,.... All men, in distinction from angels; and these as fallen, as weak, frail, sinful, and mortal creatures; men of every nation, Jew or Gentile, and of every character, elect or non-elect: not but that he has also a power over angels; nor is his power over men limited to their "flesh" or bodies, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. In this verse you get the doctrines of general and particular redemption blended. By his death, Christ obtained power over all flesh; his death had some relation to every man, but the special object of it was the salvation of the elect....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him Here we have both the universality and the speciality of the work of divine mercy. Christ has power over all flesh, men are in the power of the one Mediator, but there is this special object ever before him: “that he should give eternal...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Notice the doctrine of this verse. Here is the mention both of a general and a particular relation to Christ. “Thou hast given him power over all flesh.” Never think of setting a limit to the value of Christ’s atoning sacrifice, never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou, hast given him. Christ, by his death, had power given him over all flesh; — that is the universal aspect of it; but there was a special purpose hidden within it: “that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom though hast sent. See how he puts himself side by side with God as no mere man might dare to do. Only he who was equal with the Father could...