Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Commentary
Vs. 1 “Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,”
Here Jesus begins His most intimate prayer to the Father that we have revealed to us. In it Jesus begins by saying that the hour has come, that is the hour of His arrest, trial, and later Crucifixion death at the hands of the unbelieving world when He would purchase by His own suffering death on the Cross our salvation for us. Therefore, Jesus having just foretold of His own humiliation and death now also prays to the Father that He, “Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You.” For the Lord Jesus Christ would not be glorified at His Crucifixion Death, but rather He is now forever glorified because God the Father raised Him from the dead and presented Him alive to His chosen witnesses! And thus, being presented alive Jesus Christ now Ascended back to the Father in heaven glorifies the Father eternally because through Him the Fathers perfect plan of redemption and judgment was completely fulfilled and accomplished through Him alone!
Vs. 2 “as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.”
Here is the second way that Jesus Christ glorifies the Father, that is in that having been given authority over all flesh by the Father, Jesus Christ now gives eternal life to as many as God the Father has given to Him! And so here the election of God is also clearly stated by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself! For it is in giving eternal life to as many as God the Father has given Him that He also glorifies the Father!
Vs. 3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
Here the Lord Jesus Christ answers just what eternal life is, what it entails, and that is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent! Therefore, you cannot no One unless you know both the Father and the Son. And that is why Jesus came to reveal and bring the Father and Himself to us all!
Vs. 4 “I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.”
The Lord Jesus Christ now declares that He has glorified God the Father here on earth, and this He did by His Perfect Life and Obedience to the Will of the Father; therefore no one can justly find fault with either Him or His Father! And so here Jesus Christ foreseeing His own obedience even unto death on the Cross can now say that He has finished the work that His Father gave Him to do. From first being born a babe and submitting to Joseph and Mary’s as His earthly parents’, to later being baptized by John the Baptist, to then enduring His terrible trial and temptation in wilderness by Satan, to finding and calling and now saving all the disciples that the Father has given to Him to keep forever, to preaching, teaching and obeying His Word and thus following and doing the Will of God in everything and in every way that the Father asked Him to do, Jesus Christ has finished the Work that God sent Him to do, therefore it is incumbent upon everyone of us to believe and receive and trust in the work that He alone has done to save us!
Vs. 5 “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”
And so here Jesus having fulfilled the Will of God here on earth is asking His Father to glorify Him with the Father Himself, thus to receive Him back in heaven and restore to Him His glory He Himself had with the Father before the world was!
Scripture Quotations
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