JOHN 17:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.”
All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them — The mutual ownership of Father and Son ("all mine are yours, yours are mine") expresses the profound unity of the Godhead. The perfective "I have been glorified in them" (dedoxasmai en autois) suggests that the disciples' faith and witness constitute Jesus' ongoing glory in the world. This represents a revolutionary understanding: the Son's post-resurrection glory manifests through the community of believers.
Church Fathers on John 17:10
As the disciples were still sad in spite of all our Lord’s consolations, henceforth He addresses Himself to the Father to show the love which He had for them; I pray for them; He not only gives them what He has of His own, but entreats another for them, as a still further proof of His love.
When He adds, I pray not for the world, by the world He means those who live according to the lust of the world, and have not the lot to be chosen by grace out of the world, as those had for whom He prayed: But for them which you have given Me. It was because the Father had given Him them, that they did not belong to the world. Nor yet had the Father, in giving them to the Son, lost what He had given: For they are Yours.
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