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John Gill
Neither pray I for these alone,.... Meaning his immediate apostles and disciples, for whose preservation and sanctification he had been particularly praying in John 17:19; and now, that it might not be thought that these were his only favourites, and the only persons he had a regard for, and to whom his intercession and sacrifice were confined; he adds, but for them also which shall believe in me...
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 us both for instruction and encouragement in...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That shows that Christ’s prayer embraces us also who have been brought to believe on him through the word which the apostles declared. Christ, with prescient eye, looked on every one of us who believe on him,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
That they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, — This little handful of disciples who had been gathered to his name, —
Charles H. Spurgeon
But for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Thank God that he will bless our word as well as his own Word! When our word is based upon his Word, when we do but expound what Christ has given us to say, then men shall believe on him through our word.
Charles H. Spurgeon
That they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, — This little handful of followers gathered about me, —
Charles H. Spurgeon
But for them also which shall believe on me through their word; In the glass of prevision, Christ saw us, my brethren, and he saw all the myriads, yet unborn, who are to be gathered to his cross, and to bow before his feet, and he prayed for them all: “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Christ knew that his Church would grow. He did not merely pray for the little handful of disciples who were with him there, but he preyed for all who, in after years, should believe on him.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, “For these who are already converted, I pray also for those who are not yet called by grace.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
But for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 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. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them: — Who amongst us knoweth the full meaning of that wondrous declaration? “The glory which thou gavest me I have given them:” —
Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither pray I for these alone,-“ For these who are already saved by my word,” — Joh_17:20. But for them also which shall believe on me through their word; And so his blessed arm encircled not only the converts gathered to him by his own personal ministry, but also those who should, in after days, be converted under his servants’ ministry; and it always seems to me to have been great...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word: 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. Our Saviour knew how apt we should be to split up into sects, and to be divided into parties, and so he prays again and again that we may be one....
Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither pray I for these alone. These saved ones.
Charles H. Spurgeon
But for them also which shall believe on me through their word: 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. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one; Christ prays for us before we believe, and we believe in answer to his prayer. Oh!...
Charles H. Spurgeon
That they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; They were only a handful of disciples, but you cannot tell what a multitude will believe on Christ through their word. There were but twelve apostles; yet John beheld a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe in me through their word; There is a great company of people who are not at present believers, but who shall yet believe on Christ through the testimony of those who are already believers on him. O God, call out many such through our word I pray.