- Bible
- John
- Chapter 17
- Verse 4
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
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Gill's Exposition
I have glorified thee on the earth,.... This is made use of as a reason and argument, why the Father should glorify him: Christ glorified his Father personally, as he held forth and expressed the…
Barnes' Notes
Have glorified thee - In my instructions and life. See his discourses everywhere, the whole tendency of which is to put honor on God. I have finished the work - Compare Joh 19:30. When he says “I have…
Adam Clarke
I have glorified thee - Our Lord, considering himself as already sacrificed for the sin of the world, speaks of having completed the work which God had given him to do: and he looks forward to that…
Here we have, I. The circumstances of this prayer, Joh 17:1. Many a solemn prayer Christ made in the days of his flesh (sometimes he continued all night in prayer), but none of his prayers are…
Cambridge Bible
I have glorified Better, I glorified. In confident anticipation Christ looks backs from the point when all shall be accomplished, and speaks of the whole work of redemption as one act. Our translators…
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