John 17


An Outline by Pastor Peter C. Picos

Here is a verse-by-verse outline of the High Priestly Prayer of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Pastor Picos wrote this outline, like Our Lord's Prayer Life, Open your Bible to the seventeenth chapter of John's Gospel and join the study!--Joseph Tirrito

Verse No., Description, and Scripture Text

  1. Glorification of the Son. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may also glorify thee:
  2. Glorification of the Father (also v. 4). Salvation of Men. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
  3. Saviour's Definition of Eternal Life. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
  4. Completion of the Task. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
  5. Restoration. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
  6. Manifestation. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
  7. Continual Commendation. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
  8. Spiritual Reception. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
  9. Christ's Intercession. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
  10. Christ's and the Father's Possessions. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
  11. The Ascension of the Saviour. The Submission of the Saviour. The Description of the Father. The Preservation of the Disciples. The Union of the Believers. The Union of the Father and the Son. 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].
  12. Preservation and Perdition. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
  13. Jubilation in Satisfaction. And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
  14. Opposition of the World. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  15. Instruction of the Hearers of His Prayer. Protection from Satan. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
  16. Separation. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  17. Sanctification or Consecration. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
  18. The Mission of Christ. The Mission of the Believer. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
  19. The Sanctification of Christ. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
  20. The Intercession of Christ. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
  21. The Unification of Believers. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
  22. The Communication of that Glory to the Believer which was given to Him by the Father. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may e one, even as we are one:
  23. Unification, Perfection, and Equalization. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
  24. The Believer's Association with Christ. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
  25. The Supplication of Christ--Distinction. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
  26. The Declaration--Past. The Continuation--Present. Communion--Union (Identification). And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it]: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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