6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8 For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. 9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Commentary
Vs. 6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.”
Now the Lord Jesus Christ manifested God the Fathers Name (Yahweh, YHWH) to the disciples by the things He said and did. For no one else has ever done or said the things that Jesus has done and said to manifest God the Father here on earth to mortal man. And so it was to these twelve chosen men that God the Father took out of the world and gave to His Son to be His disciples that Jesus did and said these things. For they were the Fathers and He gave them to His Son, and so here Jesus says they have kept His Word, the Fathers Word, by believing in His Son whom He sent to them!
Vs. 7 “Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.”
Having seen God the Father’s Name manifested through the Lord Jesus Christ, the believing disciples now have known that all the things which the Father has given His Son are from God the Father in heaven. Thus, Jesus’ Person, Position and Title as Son Servant Savior Lord King Messiah High Priest etc. are all from God the Father!
Vs. 8 “For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.”
Here the Lord Jesus Christ declares that He has given to the disciples the Words which God the Father gave to Him, and they received His Words! Which itself is the mark of any true disciples our willingness and desire to receive and keep the Lord Jesus Christ’s Words! Now Jesus says that having received God’s Words from Him they have surely known that Jesus Christ came forth from God, and so they have believed that God the Father sent Jesus Christ to them!
Vs. 9-10 9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.”
The Jesus Christ now declares not only the depth of His love for His disciples but also the Fathers. For as the Father gave us to Him, so our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ prays just for us, not for the world, that is the blinded and unbelieving world, but for all of us whom God the Father has given Him! And so just as we are God the Fathers, beginning with Him, so we are the Lord Jesus Christ’s being given to Him by Him. Therefore, when Jesus says, “And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.” He is revealing His own equality with the Father, as well by saying that He is glorified in us, He is being glorified by the Body of Christ being here on earth, and so He keeps His Presence by His Spirit dwelling inside of us here on earth! And so, we not only belong to God the Father and Son, but we are partakers of the Divine Nature by which Jesus Christ is being glorified through us all, both individually and collectively as the Body of Christ here on earth!
Vs. 11 “Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.”
Again, because Jesus is going out of the world He now prays to the Holy Father (a Name and Title which belongs to God in heaven alone, Matt 23:9) to keep us all through His Name whom God the Father has given to Him. Now the Lord Jesus’ statement: “that they may be one as We are.” Entails a Spiritual and moral unity. Spiritual in that the Holy Spirit and the Holy Words of God given us through the Lord Jesus Christ are what unites us all as members of the Body of Christ. For it is by the Holy Spirit and keeping the Words of Christ that we keep the unity of Christ. Our moral unity then is born out of those Words and truths, which itself is the unchanging Moral Character of God (i.e. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit) and thus is to be manifested and upheld and kept by us all who believe in Him. For this is the key battleground, and Jesus knowing that there would be those who would depart from Him, and thus would seek to introduce and propagate all kinds of moral and even spiritual degeneracy, amongst those who are sanctified and seeking to live sanctified lives. Now when they do they not only break themselves off from the Holy unity of God, but they also drag down with themselves all those who believe and obey them! Therefore, it is incumbent upon us all to come out and be separate from them as the Scripture says (2 Cor. 6:14-7:1; Rev. 18:1-4).
Vs. 12 “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.”
When Jesus was living amongst the disciples He kept them in the Father’s Name, that is He kept them secure by His Authority and Power over Satan who took none of them, except one the son of perdition, Judas Iscariot who willingly betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ for some worthless silver and thus fulfilled the prophetic Word of God. Thus, he alone is lost of all the disciples that began with the Lord Jesus Christ, and so he is now lost forever in fulfillment of the Scripture because he gave the devil a place in his own heart and thus a foothold in his own life by his own evil greed.
Vs. 13 “But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.”
The Lord Jesus now explains why He was praying openly like this in the presence of His disciples, so that they (i.e. we) may have His joy fulfilled in ourselves! I mean when you read Jesus Words, these very Words saved for us, your heart cannot but be filled with joy knowing that this how Jesus prays for us all continually, to be kept by His Father and to be kept by Him sanctified in the Oneness of their Holy Unity.
Vs. 14 “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”
Jesus now declares again that He has given us God the Father’s Word, not His own, not someone else’s but God the Fathers Word to keep. Therefore no one should ever entertain any thoughts that the Words of the Lord Jesus Christ are any less incumbent than the God the Father’s, for they are One! Now Jesus also says in giving us God the Fathers Word, the world has hated us, because we are not of this world, just as He is not of this world, and so they hate us, just as they hated Him!
Vs. 15 “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.”
The Lord Jesus Christ now prays not that God the Father should take us out of the world; for how then could we be His lights in the world; rather that He would keep us from the evil one, that is Satan, the devil, the ruler of this world, who holds sway over those of this world, who propagates all lies to deceive and destroy what God seeks to make good, who frankly uses those of this world to do and pursue his evil will. Therefore, Jesus prays that the Father keep us from him, from being brought under his influence and control, (as the world is), and thus unwittingly becoming servants of his evil agenda and will.
Vs. 16 “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”
Jesus once again reiterates that we are not of this world just as He is not of this world. Therefore, we need not be discouraged or fret when the world hates and rejects us, for so they hate and reject our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Therefore, because we are not of the world, we must never align ourselves with the world, for loyalty is to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Word not the world!
Vs. 17 “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”
Jesus’ prayer here is that we be sanctified by God’s truth, which alone is found in God’s Word, for it is foundational to our being sanctified and living sanctified lives! We look only then to Word of God as our guide into all truth that sanctifies us!
Vs. 18 “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.”
As the Father sent Jesus into the world so He now sends us, not to be conformed to this world (Rom. 12:2), but to be His lights and witnesses to it, thus to bear the Gospel of God’s grace and love to everyone who will hear us. Christians then who are willingly isolated from the world are not then following Jesus Christ who suffered outside the gates of Jerusalem (Heb. 12:12-13).
Vs. 19 “And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”
Jesus then by sanctifying Himself, that is setting Himself apart from the world to do God the Father’s Will, and thus suffer Crucifixion death for us all, did so, so that we who believe in Him might be sanctified by the truth, that is made holy by His Person and Word.
Scripture Quotations
New King James (1982):Thomas Nelson.
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