A Tour Through John, Lesson 29

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/tour-john-lesson-29/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><ul><li>The entire chapter is a prayer. This falls into three parts:<ul><li>Prayer for himself (vv.1-5).</li><li>Prayer for his disciples (vv.6-19).</li><li>Prayer for the world -- future believers (vv.20-26).</li></ul></li><li>The order is crucial:<ul><li>Jesus' training of his disciples would have been a failure had he not given top priority to his own spirituality.</li><li>Getting the message out to the world is impossible unless the messengers remain holy. They must continue to live in obedience to the Word.</li><li>Then and only then will the world hear. The goal is not only conversion, but <i>unity</i> (vv.22-23).</li></ul></li></ul><p>17:1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. </p><ul><li>The hour has come (v.1).</li><li>Throughout the Gospel of John it has been on the way (2:4; 7:6,8,30; 8:20), and now it is here (12:23,27-28,31-32; 13:1,31).</li><li>It will culminate with Jesus' final words "It is finished" (19:30).</li></ul><p>3 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.</p><ul><li>Jesus prays for himself (vv.1-5).</li><li>His purpose -- the goal -- is that God may be glorified; this takes place when we finish the work he is given us to do (v.4). See 4:34.</li><li>This work is to make eternal life (knowledge of God) accessible to as many as possible (vv.2-3).</li><li>Now he looks forward to rejoining the Father in the eternal glory enjoyed before the incarnation (v.5). This is