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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 17:1-8
  by J.C. Ryle
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When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven
and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son
may glorify you--just as you have given him authority over all humanity,
so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. Now
this is eternal life--that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom you sent. I glorified you on earth by completing the work
you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the
glory I had with you before the world was created.

"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They
belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your
word. Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from
you, because I have given them the words you have given me. They
accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they
believed that you sent me.

These verses begin one of the most wonderful chapters in the Bible. It
is a chapter in which we see our Lord Jesus Christ addressing a long
prayer to God the Father. It is wonderful as a specimen of the communion
that was ever kept up between the Father and the Son, during the period
of the Son\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/expository-thoughts-on-john-john-171-8/
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