John 17:1-5 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son… "What strange condescension, that He who hath the key of David should knock at the Father's gate, and receive His own heaven by gift and entreaty!" These are Manton's words of surprise at the first sentences of our Lord's prayer in John 17.: "Father, glorify Thy Son." Even to Jesus it is said, "Ask of Me." God had one Son without sin, but never a son who did not pray. The cry of "Abba, Father!" is the mark of sonship. True prayer is the sign of a true-born child of God: "Behold, he prayeth" is the token by which each heir of glory is known. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: |
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