I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”
Parallel translations
- WEB I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
- KJV And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
- BSB And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- NKJV And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- NASB and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
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Quick answer
Jesus has made the Father's name known and will continue to do so, that the Father's love and Christ himself may dwell in believers. The prayer ends with love and indwelling.
Overview
Jesus closes his prayer by promising ongoing revelation of the Father, with the goal that the very love the Father has for the Son would be in his people, and that he himself would dwell in them. This is the climax of the prayer: not merely knowledge but the indwelling love of God and the abiding presence of Christ. It assures believers of intimate union with God through Christ.
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Cross-references · 27
- John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
- John 17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
- John 15:9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
- 1 Jn 4:13–14By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
- Heb 2:12saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
- John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
- John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
- Ps 22:22I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
- John 15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
- Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
- Eph 5:30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
- John 8:50But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
- Eph 5:32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
- Col 2:10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
- Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
- 1 Jn 3:24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
- Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- 1 Cor 12:12For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
- John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
- Rom 8:10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
- 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
- Eph 1:22–23He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
- Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
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