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Selected Verse: John 17:25 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Joh 17:25 |
King James |
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee--knew thee not.
but I have known thee--knew thee.
and these have known--knew.
that thou hast sent--sentest
me--As before He said "Holy Father," when desiring the display of that perfection on His disciples (Joh 17:11), so here He styles Him "Righteous Father," because He is appealing to His righteousness or justice, to make a distinction between those two diametrically opposite classes--"the world," on the one hand, which would not "know the Father, though brought so nigh to it in the Son of His love, and, on the other, Himself, who recognized and owned Him, and even His disciples, who owned His mission from the Father. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Hath not known thee - See the notes at Joh 17:3. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
world
Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind".
(See Scofield) - (Mat 4:8). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Righteous Father - The admission of believers to God through Christ, flows even from the justice of God. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The world hath not known thee - Has not acknowledged me. See on Joh 1:11, Joh 1:12 (note).
And these have known - Here our Lord, returning to the disciples, speaks:
1st. Of their having received him as the Messiah;
2dly. Of his making the Father known unto them;
3dly. Of his purpose to continue to influence them by the Spirit of truth, that they might be perfectly united to God, by an indwelling Savior for ever. |
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.