NOTES for Joh 17:1-5
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: |
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. |
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. |
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. |
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. |
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Reading today's passage from the Gospel of John, one wants, following Pilate and his question "What is truth?" (John 18:38), to ask: what is eternal life?
And indeed, it is hard to count the people who have ever been occupied by this question. Only God, who knows even the number of stars in the sky, can do that. And in answer to this question Jesus will answer us today with the words: "And this is eternal life, that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent" (John 17:3).
He may not say them directly to us, but we can hear them, like Jesus' disciples, in His conversation with the Father. Through the Holy Spirit, people are shown the Lord's desire that every person come to Him and enter into a relationship of love with Him. And in these very words one can see that this desire fills the Trinity: the desire that every person "know" the true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent.
Readings for 3 June 2025
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