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The expression ‘may be one’ occurs five times in John 17, a number usually considered to show the grace of God, and ‘one’ — representing God — appears seven times.
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My Bible divides John 17 into three parts — Jesus prays for Himself; Jesus prays for His disciples, and Jesus prays for all believers. There is, of course, much more to it than that.
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If any part of scripture has had a profound influence on my life, it must surely be John 17. The first verse shows us the fifth and final time in John’s Gospel that Jesus tells us that the hour has come.
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But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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In a recent telephone conversation with our 6 year old eldest grand-daughter, Gill had a discussion regarding old clothes and what to do with them. Needless to say, but our grand-daughter had firm views on the subject…
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Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! What a great thought to begin anything — with praise and thanksgiving — an exhortation to The LORD’s people to come up higher to God’s Holy mountain.
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Figurative language’ looks and sounds awkward and unlikely as a Biblical expression, and I find myself turning again to the King James Version, where verse 25 reads as ‘These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh …
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We see that Jesus is giving the disciples an understanding of His Resurrection, yet they remain confused by His words. We might consider the disciples to be a bit slow to grasp the truth, but we know what happened, how things unfolded in the world.
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The Holy Spirit — the Paraclete (from the Greek ‘paraklētos’, helper, advocate, comforter) — is no better explained than in Jesus’ words to His disciples here. The purpose of the Spirit of Truth is to act as Jesus’ presence with all who follow Him…
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Is there a specific event to which our Lord is referring in this passage? The first words here speak of ‘The Helper’, which we know refers to the Holy Spirit, which Jesus refers to as ‘the Spirit of Truth’.
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Mark presents this coda to the wonders of the previous days in a very matter-of-fact way — almost like a business meeting, where Jesus is the chairman, summing up and clarifying a few points, reminding the disciples of the ground covered and the way ahead …
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Very early in the morning’ is a powerful symbol of the light appearing above the horizon, or darkness vanquished — ‘a new day is dawning’. And what light brings is sight to the blind, an awakening of perception …
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Mark’s Gospel is thought to be the earliest of the first four New Testament books, and is the most pared back, telling of Jesus with a straightforward narrative.
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The soldiers mocked Jesus as He struggled to carry the cross to Golgotha. They forced Simon (a derivation of ‘Simeon’, meaning ‘hearing’) to take the burden of that cross.
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