Christ's Glory Sought Through Willing Sacrifice
In His intercessory prayer, Jesus petitions the Father with a remarkable duality: 'Glorify Thy Son' (verses 1 and 5). Maclaren observes that the repetition is...
This is historical examples on willing sacrifice and eternal nature and incarnation, drawing on John 17:1-19.
In His intercessory prayer, Jesus petitions the Father with a remarkable duality: 'Glorify Thy Son' (verses 1 and 5). Maclaren observes that the repetition is not accidental. In the first petition (verses 1-3), Christ speaks impersonally of 'Thy Son'—resting upon the eternal relations between Father and Son realized in Jesus. But in verses 4-5, the personal element breaks forth: 'I' and 'Me' appear with emphatic force.…
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