Bible Strands
John 17:1
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus is speaking to the Father after having spoken these things. He has lifted His eyes to heaven and declares that the hour has come.
The words — Tauta (ταῦτα), “these things,” points back to what Jesus has just said. Eparas (ἐπάρας), “having lifted up,” marks His eyes turned toward heaven before the prayer.
The thread — John 17:4 says Jesus has glorified the Father on earth by accomplishing the work given to Him. John 13:31 and Philippians 2:9 place this glory in the Son of Man being glorified and God exalting Him.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to hear Jesus’ request as dependent on the Father’s authority and the Son’s giving of eternal life in John 17:2. It presents the hour as the point at which the Father and Son are mutually glorified.
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The Greek words
King James Version
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:
Cross-references
- John 17:4 I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
- Philippians 2:9 Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
- John 13:31 When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
- John 12:23 But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
- John 12:27 Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
- Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
- John 7:39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
- 1 Peter 1:21 Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
- John 11:4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
- Psalms 121:1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?