Yohanes 17:1

Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him

17:1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward ¹  to heaven ²  and said, “Father, the time ³  has come. Glorify your Son, so that your ⁴  Son may glorify you –

Yohanes 17:6-9

Jesus Prays for the Disciples

17:6 “I have revealed ⁵  your name to the men ⁶  you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, ⁷  and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed ⁸  your word. 17:7 Now they understand ⁹  that everything ¹⁰  you have given me comes from you, 17:8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They ¹¹  accepted ¹²  them ¹³  and really ¹⁴  understand ¹⁵  that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 17:9 I am praying ¹⁶  on behalf of them. I am not praying ¹⁷  on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. ¹⁸ 

[17:1]  ¹ tn Grk “he raised his eyes” (an idiom).

[17:1]  sn Jesus also looked upward before his prayer in John 11:41. This was probably a common posture in prayer. According to the parable in Luke 18:13 the tax collector did not feel himself worthy to do this.

[17:1]  ² tn Or “to the sky.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven” depending on the context.

[17:1]  ³ tn Grk “the hour.”

[17:1]  sn The time has come. Jesus has said before that his “hour” had come, both in 12:23 when some Greeks sought to speak with him, and in 13:1 where just before he washed the disciples’ feet. It appears best to understand the “hour” as a period of time starting at the end of Jesus’ public ministry and extending through the passion week, ending with Jesus’ return to the Father through death, resurrection, and exaltation. The “hour” begins as soon as the first events occur which begin the process that leads to Jesus’ death.

[17:1]  ⁴ tc The better witnesses (א B C* W 0109 0301) have “the Son” (ὁ υἱός, Jo Juios) here, while the majority (C³ L Ψ Ë¹³ 33 Ï) read “your Son also” (καὶ ὁ υἱὸς σου, kai Jo Juio" sou), or “your Son” (ὁ υἱὸς σου; A D Θ 0250 1 579 pc lat sy); the second corrector of C has καὶ ὁ υἱός (“the Son also”). The longer readings appear to be predictable scribal expansions and as such should be considered secondary.

[17:1]  tn Grk “the Son”; “your” has been added here for English stylistic reasons.

[17:6]  ⁵ tn Or “made known,” “disclosed.”

[17:6]  ⁶ tn Here “men” is retained as a translation for ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") rather than the more generic “people” because in context it specifically refers to the eleven men Jesus had chosen as apostles (Judas had already departed, John 13:30). If one understands the referent here to be the broader group of Jesus’ followers that included both men and women, a translation like “to the people” should be used here instead.

[17:6]  ⁷ tn Grk “Yours they were.”

[17:6]  ⁸ tn Or “have kept.”

[17:7]  ⁹ tn Or “they have come to know,” or “they have learned.”

[17:7]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “all things.”

[17:8]  ¹¹ tn Grk And they.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:8]  ¹² tn Or “received.”

[17:8]  ¹³ tn The word “them” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[17:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “truly.”

[17:8]  ¹⁵ tn Or have come to know.”

[17:9]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “I am asking.”

[17:9]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “I am not asking.”

[17:9]  ¹⁸ tn Or “because they are yours.”