The words glory, glorify, and glorified are mentioned nine times in John 17 and five times in the first five verses. Glory is one of the main themes of Yeshua/Jesus’s prayer, His last prayer on the Earth before going to the cross, and His subsequent resurrection that the Father’s Glory would be made known to…
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Summary, part 2 of 5 – John, Chapter 14 There are 31 verses in John 14, and each one of them is worthy of our attention. That’s why I wrote so extensively about them. Picking a favorite is like picking your favorite child. It just can’t be done. They are each special in their own…
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John 17:24 Father, I also want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory – the glory You gave Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. The glory of Yeshua is a reflection of His Father’s love, and He wants…
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John 17:22 The glory that You have given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one – This is the third time I’m writing about this subject verse. Rabbi Trail: I love it when the Lord wakes me up with thoughts of the next piece. That…
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John 17:22 The glory that You have given to Me I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one – In this subject verse, we have “glory” that goes around and comes around. The word “glory” appears in the Greek as “Doxa” (and in the Delitzsch version – see…
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John 17:5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world came to be. Yeshua’s prayer (all of John 17) is arranged in orderly thought groupings we have formed into paragraphs. Here in verse 5, Yeshua is providing us with the closing sentence of His first…
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A very Happy and Blessed New Year to you! In Israel we get to wish everyone a “Happy New Year” two times each year. The first is on the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) and then again on January 1- the “civil” New Year as we call it. When we first moved here, there was…
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