john 17:13 commentary

Here Christ shows that the reason why he was so earnest in praying for his disciples was, not that he was anxious about their future condition, but rather to provide a remedy for their anxiety. There is a double care which Christ takes of his people; namely, a care of their graces, and a care of their joy and comfort; how solicitious was he to leave his disciples joyful before he departed from them! "Commentary on John 17:13". He calls it HIS joy, because it was necessary that the disciples should obtain it from him; or, if you choose to express it more briefly, he calls it his, because he is the Author, Cause, and Pledge of it; for in us there is nothing but alarm and uneasiness, but in Christ alone there is peace and joy. 1871-8. 1896. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. II. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. John 11:42) that they may have the support of knowing that He who had kept them while with them, had solemnly committed them to His Father’s care. A heart beloved and a heart loving must be a heart of joy. "Commentary on John 17:13". 3. And so He found solace in making the unhappy happy--a grand position, divinely high. That His joy in His disciples might be perfect in kind; that is, that it should spring from the same sources and have the same attributes in the seme proportion, as in His life and heart. 1851. But He did, and in a weeping world He had a word of mighty power. Assuredly then, it was not the joy gleaned from surroundings. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world. Jesus had protected the Eleven while He was with them in the world, but now He was about to leave them and return to the Father. In answering this His prayer the Father will only be accomplishing His own plan, and securing His own glory through the glorification of the disciples in the Son. As He is their King to rule them (Psalms 149:2). He calls it HIS joy, because it was necessary that the disciples should obtain it from him; or, if you choose to express it more briefly, he calls it his, because he is the Author, Cause, and Pledge of it; for in us there is nothing but alarm and uneasiness, but in Christ alone there is peace and joy. THE MEASURE IN WHICH CHRIST DESIRES HIS SAINTS TO POSSESS THIS JOY. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". All other rights reserved. 4. Cf. There are two reasons why God does not take His people out of the world, but rather keeps them in it and preserves them from the evil. Go into His own family: they are hostile and scornful. BibliographyRobertson, A.T. "Commentary on John 17:13". I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves — that is, Such a strain befits rather the upper sanctuary than the scene of conflict; but I speak so “in the world,” that My joy, the joy I experience in knowing that such intercessions are to be made for them by their absent Lord, may be tasted by those who now hear them, and by all who shall hereafter read the record of them. It was the joy of approaching glory. One ceaseless grief He bad--loneliness of soul. Spiritual joy ariseth more from hope than possession (Romans 12:12; Hebrews 3:6; Romans 5:2). "Commentary on John 17:13". John 15:11, note [“the joy which I have at My departure to the Father, a joy flowing from love”]. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/john-17.html. And these things I speak in the world. "Commentary on John 17:13". 15:11). 1700-1703. The joy of Jesus was not that then that every eye could see. Ведь в нас нет ничего, кроме страха и беспокойства, во Христе же – одни лишь мир и веселие. 4. 3. The same stream of love that flowed from the Father to the Son, flows from the Father to us. (b) Employ your serious thoughts upon that delicious place where there is fulness of all joy and pleasures for evermore (Romans 4:4). "Commentary on John 17:13". And these things I speak in the world, that they may have the joy that is mine fulfilled in themselves. 3. And, saith he, while I am in the world, I speak these things; I put up this prayer, that the joy of my people may not be diminished by my going from them, but that when they can no longer (as hitherto) rejoice in my bodily presence with them, they may yet rejoice that I am ascended to my Father, that they stand commended to the care of thee, my Father, by this my last prayer. Chapter 17. "And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.". Music comes stealing through the corridors of the ear--joy comes with it. It flowed out from the soul. They meet in our subject, and the music of the meeting of the waters is joy. He had just said this before; but He loves to say it again, the yearning of His whole soul after the Father thus finding natural relief. See the note at John 15:11; only here the ground of that joy seems more comprehensive than there. BibliographyHengstenberg, Ernst. W. McGarvey and Philip Y. Pendleton. 1863-1878. ταῦτα, these things, refer to the "Holy Father," etc. He was the Christ, anointed to comfort all that mourn. 13. Why speak them in the world? The thought of His immediate departure leads Jesus to pray that His disciples may be filled with a joy independent of His personal presence,—‘in themselves.’. Unutterable groans make way for ineffable joys. Being an inward joy it may be had under any and every circumstance, yea, it is a joy that will thrive where any other joy would perish. I invite you all who have faith in Jesus, and a good hope in Him through grace, to cherish the fulness of the Saviour’s joy. Notes on John 15:11; John 16:24. 3. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them. And these things I speak in the world, that they may have the joy that is mine fulfilled in themselves. John 17:13. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. His loving care lavished all its resources upon them. As He Himself goes to the Father, He utters this petition aloud, and while yet with the disciples— ταῦτα λαλῶ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ —that they might recognise that the power of God was engaged for their protection, and might thus have repeated and perfected in themselves the same joy with which Christ had overcome all the trials and fears of life.

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