Year of the Bible
John 17
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Commentary on The Gospel According to St. John, Chapter 17:
In the last chapter of Jesus’ last discourse, Jesus turns His attention to the Father. The mutual glory of Father and Son is expressed as Jesus states that His hour to be glorified has finally come. He prays for the Father to protect the disciples who will be left behind, as well as those who will believe due to the disciples’ words. Jesus speaks of His shared unity and love with the Father and prays that those who believe who may experience with Jesus what Jesus experiences with the Father.
The Gospel According to St. John, Chapter 17:
Jesus Prays for the Church
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do; 5 and now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made.
6 “I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; they were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you; 8 for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours; 10 all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
20 “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory which you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which you have given me in your love for me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you; and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
*Daily Lectio Divina Question:
Here Jesus reveals God's true plan for us; that we become one with Him for all eternity. Sit with the implications of that. How should that reality change the way we Christians behave?
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Juan 17
1 Jesús, después de pronunciar estas
palabras, elevó sus ojos al cielo
y dijo:
–Padre, ha llegado la hora. Glorifica
a tu Hijo para que tu Hijo te glorifique;
2 ya que le diste potestad sobre toda
carne, que él dé vida eterna a todos los
que Tú le has dado. 3 Ésta es la vida eterna:
que te conozcan a Ti, el único Dios
verdadero, y a Jesucristo, a quien Tú has
enviado. 4 Yo te he glorificado en la tierra:
he terminado la obra que Tú me has
encomendado que hiciera. 5 Ahora, Padre,
glorifícame Tú a tu lado con la gloria
que tuve junto a Ti antes de que el
mundo existiera.
6 »He manifestado tu nombre a los
que me diste del mundo. Tuyos eran,
Tú me los confiaste y ellos han guardado
tu palabra. 7 Ahora han conocido
que todo lo que me has dado proviene
de Ti, 8 porque las palabras que me diste
se las he dado, y ellos las han recibido
y han conocido verdaderamente que
yo salí de Ti, y han creído que Tú me
enviaste. 9 Yo ruego por ellos; no ruego
por el mundo sino por los que me has
dado, porque son tuyos. 10 Todo lo mío
es tuyo, y lo tuyo mío, y he sido glorificado
en ellos.
11 »Ya no estoy en el mundo, pero
ellos están en el mundo y yo voy a Ti.
Padre Santo, guarda en tu nombre a
aquellos que me has dado, para que
sean uno como nosotros. 12 Cuando estaba
con ellos yo los guardaba en tu
nombre. He guardado a los que me diste
y ninguno de ellos se ha perdido, excepto
el hijo de la perdición, para que
se cumpliera la Escritura. 13 Pero ahora
voy a Ti y digo estas cosas en el mundo,
para que tengan mi alegría completa
en sí mismos.
14 »Yo les he dado tu palabra, y el
mundo los ha odiado porque no son
del mundo, lo mismo que yo no soy del
mundo. 15 No pido que los saques del mundo,
sino que los guardes del Maligno.
16 No son del mundo lo mismo que
yo no soy del mundo. 17 Santifícalos en
la verdad: tu palabra es la verdad. 18 Lo
mismo que Tú me enviaste al mundo,
así los he enviado yo al mundo. 19 Por
ellos yo me santifico, para que también
ellos sean santificados en la verdad.
20 »No ruego sólo por éstos, sino por
los que van a creer en mí por su palabra:
21 que todos sean uno; como Tú, Padre,
en mí y yo en Ti, que así ellos estén
en nosotros, para que el mundo crea
que Tú me has enviado. 22 Yo les he dado
la gloria que Tú me diste, para que sean
uno como nosotros somos uno. 23 Yo en
ellos y Tú en mí, para que sean consumados
en la unidad, y conozca el mundo
que Tú me has enviado y los has
amado como me amaste a mí. 24 Padre,
quiero que donde yo estoy también estén
conmigo los que Tú me has confiado,
para que vean mi gloria, la que me
has dado porque me amaste antes de
la creación del mundo. 25 Padre justo, el
mundo no te conoció; pero yo te conocí,
y éstos han conocido que Tú me enviaste.
26 Les he dado a conocer tu nombre
y lo daré a conocer, para que el amor
con que Tú me amaste esté en ellos y yo
en ellos.
Pregunta de Lectio Divina del día de hoy
Aquí Jesús revela el verdadero plan de Dios para nosotros; que nos hagamos uno con Él por toda la eternidad. Siéntate con las implicaciones de ésto. ¿Cómo debiera esa realidad cambiar la manera en que nos comportamos nosotros los Cristianos?
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