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Contemporary English Version

John 17:5

Now, Father, give me back the glory that I had with you before the world was created.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ask;   Christ;   Christ's;   Church;   Divinity;   Divinity-Humanity;   Eternal;   Family;   Glory;   Importunity;   Prayer;   Pre-Existence of Christ;   Secret Prayer;   United Prayer;   Unwise Prayers;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Belief;   Belonging;   Declaration;   Disciples/apostles;   Giving and Gifts;   Glory;   Hate;   Jesus Christ;   Judas Iscariot;   Knowledge;   Losing and Things Lost;   Love;   Manifestation;   Sanctification;   Sending and Those Sent;   Truth;   Unity;   Word of God;   World;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Glory;   Jesus christ;   Son of god;   Transfiguration;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ascension of Jesus Christ;   Glory;   Mediator, Mediation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Covenant;   Intercession of Christ;   Jesus Christ;   Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ;   Predestination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Glorify;   Perseverance of the Saints;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Incarnation;   John, the Gospel of;   Unity;   World, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Ephesians, Epistle to;   Glory;   Image;   Logos;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Announcements of Death;   Annunciation, the ;   Ascension;   Assumption of Moses;   Attributes of Christ;   Bosom ;   Claims (of Christ);   Communion (2);   Complacency;   Creator (Christ as);   Death of Christ;   Glory (2);   Heaven ;   Hopefulness ;   Humiliation of Christ;   Ideas (Leading);   Immanence ;   Individuality;   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Kenosis;   Mediator;   Names and Titles of Christ;   Pre-Existence;   Session;   Son of God;   Trinity (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ascension;   Glory;   John, the Gospel by;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Body;   Glory;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Glorify;   Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ascension;   Children of God;   Christ, the Exaltation of;   Glory;   James;   Person of Christ;   Prayers of Jesus;   Trinity;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 10;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now, Father, clothe me in the glory I had before the world began.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Bible in Basic English
And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
Darby Translation
and now glorify *me*, *thou* Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.
New King James Version
And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Christian Standard Bible®
Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with that glory I had with You before the world existed.
World English Bible
Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee, before the world was.
Weymouth's New Testament
And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence, with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.
King James Version (1611)
And now O Father, glorifie thou me, with thine owne selfe, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Literal Translation
And now Father, glorify Me with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the existence of the world.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now glorifye me thou father by thine awne self, with ye glory which I had or euer the worlde was.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world.
Amplified Bible
"Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory and majesty that I had with You before the world existed.
American Standard Version
And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Revised Standard Version
and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And now glorify me thou father wt thyn awne selfe with the glory which I had with ye yerre ye worlde was.
Update Bible Version
And now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thy ownself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Young's Literal Translation
`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
New Century Version
And now, Father, give me glory with you; give me the glory I had with you before the world was made.
New English Translation
And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now, Father, glorify me alongside yourself. Give me the same glory I had with you before the world existed.
English Standard Version
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.
George Lamsa Translation
So now, O my Father, glorify me with you, with the same glory which I had with you before the world was made.
Hebrew Names Version
Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
International Standard Version
So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.John 1:1-2; 10:30; 14:9; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:15,17; Hebrews 1:3,10;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And now glorify thou me, my Father, with thyself, in that glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Murdock Translation
And now, my Father, glorify thou me, with that glory which I had with thee before the world was.
New Living Translation
Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.
New Life Bible
Now, Father, honor Me with the honor I had with You before the world was made.
English Revised Version
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Berean Standard Bible
And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
New Revised Standard
So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, now, glorify me - thou, Father! with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world's existence, with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.
King James Version
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Lexham English Bible
And now, Father, you glorify me at your side with the glory that I had at your side before the world existed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And nowe glorifie thou me, O father, with thine owne selfe, with the glory which I had with thee yer the worlde was.
Easy-to-Read Version
And now, Father, give me glory with you. Give me the glory I had with you before the world was made.
New American Standard Bible
"And now You, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world existed.
Good News Translation
Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before the world was made.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now, fadir, clarifie thou me at thi silf, with the clerenesse that Y hadde at thee, bifor the world was maad.

Contextual Overview

1 After Jesus had finished speaking to his disciples, he looked up toward heaven and prayed: Father, the time has come for you to bring glory to your Son, in order that he may bring glory to you. 2 And you gave him power over all people, so that he would give eternal life to everyone you give him. 3 Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent. 4 I have brought glory to you here on earth by doing everything you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, give me back the glory that I had with you before the world was created.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

glorify: John 17:24, John 1:18, John 3:13, John 10:30, John 14:9, Proverbs 8:22-31, Philippians 2:6, Colossians 1:15-17, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 1:10, 1 John 1:2, Revelation 5:9-14

before: John 1:1-3, Matthew 25:34, 1 Peter 1:20, Revelation 13:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:20 - and after 1 Samuel 2:30 - them 2 Kings 2:5 - thy master Psalms 2:8 - Ask Psalms 21:5 - glory Psalms 73:24 - receive Isaiah 42:4 - shall not Isaiah 42:21 - it Isaiah 49:4 - yet Mark 16:19 - he was Luke 10:22 - and no Luke 13:32 - I shall John 1:15 - he was John 6:62 - General John 7:18 - seeketh his glory John 7:39 - glorified John 8:54 - it is John 8:58 - Before John 10:17 - General John 10:36 - sent John 11:4 - that John 12:16 - when John 13:1 - depart John 13:3 - and that John 14:13 - that John 16:16 - because John 16:28 - I leave John 17:1 - glorify John 20:17 - I ascend Acts 2:33 - by Romans 8:6 - to be spiritually minded Philippians 2:9 - God Colossians 1:17 - he 1 Timothy 3:16 - received Hebrews 5:7 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
I will keep my solemn promise to you and give you more descendants than can be counted."
Genesis 17:4
I promise that you will be the father of many nations. That's why I now change your name from Abram to Abraham.
Genesis 17:15
Abraham, your wife's name will now be Sarah instead of Sarai.
Genesis 17:21
But your son Isaac will be born about this time next year, and the promise I am making to you and your family will be for him and his descendants forever.
Genesis 17:23
On that same day Abraham obeyed God by circumcising Ishmael. Abraham was also circumcised, and so were all other men and boys in his household, including his servants and slaves. He was ninety-nine years old at the time, and his son Ishmael was thirteen.
Genesis 32:28
The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won. That's why your name will be Israel."
2 Samuel 12:25
and sent Nathan the prophet to tell David, "The Lord will call him Jedidiah."
Nehemiah 9:7
You are the Lord our God, the one who chose Abram— you brought him from Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham.
Isaiah 65:15
I, the Lord God, promise to see that you are killed and that my chosen servants use your names as curse words. But I will give new names to my servants.
Jeremiah 20:3
The next day, when Pashhur let me go free, I told him that the Lord had said: No longer will I call you Pashhur. Instead, I will call you Afraid-of-Everything.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self,.... Not with his perfections, these he had, they dwelt bodily in him; or with his nature, in which he was one with him; but as Mediator, with his glorious presence in heaven, by setting him at his right hand, and crowning him with glory and honour. The Jews have a notion that God will give to the King Messiah, מן הכבוד של מעלה, "of the supreme glory" g: the glory Christ prays for is, as he says,

the glory which I had with thee before the world was; the same phrase with לעולם, or קודם העולם, used by the Jews h. This is not to be understood of the glory of the human nature of Christ, abstractly considered; for that is no person of itself, but what is taken up into personal union with the Son of God; and therefore cannot be intended by this personal character I; nor did it exist from eternity; it was indeed written in God's book of predestination, even all its members, when as yet there were none of them in actual being; it was set up in God's thoughts and counsel, as the pattern and exemplar of human nature; it had a federal union with the Son of God, or a covenant subsistence with him; and in the Old Testament Christ was often spoken of as man, because of his frequent appearances in an human form, and because of the certainty of his incarnation; but he did not really and actually exist as man, until he took flesh of the virgin; for Christ, as man, is the seed of the woman, the son of David, Abraham, and Adam; he is called the last and second Adam, and was not as man before the first: the Old Testament speaks of his incarnation as future, nor is it possible that a creature can exist before time; for as soon as a creature exists, time begins, which is nothing else than the measure of a creature's duration; nor was the human nature of Christ with the Father from eternity; nor had it a glory before the world began, neither in whole, nor in part: nor is the glory of the divine nature abstractly considered here meant; this glory indeed Christ had from everlasting; he had it with his Father, in common with him, being in union to him; and it is true that it was in some measure veiled and covered in his state of humiliation; for though there were some breakings forth of it in that state, these were seen but by a few; wherefore he is thought by some, to pray here for the manifestation of this glory; but this glory was essential to him, was his natural right, and not to be prayed for, and which he then had as much as ever, and of which there could be no suspension: but this designs the glory of him as Godman, and Mediator; he was not only predestinated to be a Mediator, but was really set up as such from everlasting, and had a mediatorial fulness of grace put into his hands, and had the honour and glory of that office given unto him by the other two persons; and now that he might appear to be what he was, to be made, that is, made manifest that he was both Lord and Christ, he here prays; which was to be done, upon his ascension to heaven, and session at the right hand of God, by the pouring down of the Holy Ghost.

g Midrash Tillim in Psal. 20 apud Galatin. de Arcan. Cathol. Ver. l. 3. c. 9. h Gloss in T. Bab Pesachim, fol. 54. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With thine own self - In heaven, granting me a participation of the same honor which the Father has. He had just said that he had glorified God on the earth, he now prays that God would glorify him in heaven.

With the glory - With the honor. This word also includes the notion of happiness, or everything which could render the condition blessed.

Before the world was - There could not be a more distinct and clear declaration of the pre-existence of Christ than this. It means before the creation of the world; before there was any world. Of course, the speaker here must have existed then, and this is equivalent to saying that he existed from eternity. See John 1:1-2; John 6:62; John 3:13; John 16:28. The glory which he had then was that which was proper to the Son of God, represented by the expression “being in the bosom of the Father” John 1:18, denoting intimacy, friendship, united felicity. The Son of God, by becoming incarnate, is represented as “humbling himself” (Greek: he “emptied himself”), Philippians 2:8. He laid aside for a time the external aspect of honor, and consented to become despised, and to assume the form of a servant. He now prays that God would raise him up to the dignity and honor which he had before his incarnation. This is the state to which he is now exalted, with the additional honor of having made atonement for sin, and having opened the way to save a race of rebels from eternal death. The lowest condition on earth is frequently connected with the highest honors of heaven. Man looks on the outward appearance. God looks to him that is humble and of a contrite spirit.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 17:5. Before the world was. — That is, from eternity, before there was any creation-so the phrase, and others similar to it, are taken in the sacred writings; see John 17:24; Psalms 90:2; Ephesians 1:4. See John 1:1. Let the glory of my eternal divinity surround and penetrate my humanity, in its resurrection, ascension, and in the place which it is to occupy at thy right hand, far above all creatures, Philippians 2:6; Philippians 2:9.


 
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