the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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John 17:3
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This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only
And this is life eternall, that they might know thee the onely true God, and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
"And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
And this is eternal life: that people know you, the only true God, and that they know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.
"Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.
"This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.
And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.
And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.
And this is life eternal, that they might know you, that you are the only true God, even the one who sent Jesus Christ.
And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
And this is everlasting life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah.
And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent - Jesus Christ.Isaiah 53:11; Jeremiah 9:24; John 3:34; 5:36-37; 7:29; 10:36; 11:42; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9;">[xr]
But this is the life which is eternal, that they know thee, who art the true Aloha, [fn] and Him whom thou hast sent, Jeshu Meshicha.
And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, that thou art the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Messiah.
This is lyfe eternall, that they myght knowe thee, the only true God, & Iesus Christe whom thou hast sent.
And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
And this is euerlastynge lijf, that thei knowe thee very God aloone, and whom thou hast sent, Jhesu Crist.
And this is eternal life, that they should know you the only true God, and him whom you sent, [even] Jesus Christ.
And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Now this is eternal life—that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
This is life that lasts forever. It is to know You, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ Whom You have sent.
And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
And, this, is the age-abiding life, That they get to know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou didst send, Jesus Christ.
Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
This is lyfe eternall that they myght knowe the that only very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ.
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
But this is the life euerlastinge, that they knowe the (that thou onely art the true God) and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.
and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.
Eternal life is simply knowing you, the true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to save 'em.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
this: John 17:25, John 8:19, John 8:54, John 8:55, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Psalms 9:10, Isaiah 53:11, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 31:34, Hosea 6:3, 1 Corinthians 15:34, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Hebrews 8:11, Hebrews 8:12, 1 John 4:6, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:20
the only: John 14:9, John 14:10, 2 Chronicles 15:3, Jeremiah 10:10, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Thessalonians 1:9, 1 Timothy 6:15, 1 Timothy 6:16, 1 John 5:20
and Jesus: John 3:17, John 3:34, John 5:36, John 5:37, John 6:27-29, John 6:57, John 7:29, John 10:36, John 11:42, John 12:49, John 12:50, John 14:26, Isaiah 48:16, Isaiah 61:1, Mark 9:37, Luke 9:48, 1 John 4:14, 1 John 4:15, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12
Reciprocal: Exodus 33:13 - that I Deuteronomy 30:20 - thy life 1 Samuel 2:12 - knew 1 Kings 10:1 - concerning 2 Chronicles 30:22 - the good 2 Chronicles 33:13 - knew Job 22:21 - Acquaint Job 24:1 - they that know Psalms 36:10 - that Psalms 91:14 - known Psalms 100:3 - Know Psalms 119:144 - understanding Proverbs 2:5 - find Proverbs 9:10 - the knowledge Proverbs 30:3 - nor Ecclesiastes 7:12 - the excellency Isaiah 19:21 - Lord shall Jeremiah 9:3 - they know Jeremiah 22:16 - was not Ezekiel 20:42 - ye shall Ezekiel 39:22 - know Daniel 11:32 - the people Hosea 2:20 - and Matthew 11:27 - neither Matthew 19:16 - eternal Luke 10:42 - one John 1:26 - whom John 3:15 - eternal John 4:10 - and who John 4:14 - shall never John 4:15 - give John 5:26 - so hath John 7:28 - whom John 10:14 - am John 14:6 - the life John 14:7 - ye John 16:3 - because Acts 5:20 - all Acts 17:23 - To 1 Corinthians 2:2 - not 1 Corinthians 8:6 - one God 1 Corinthians 15:45 - a quickening Galatians 4:9 - ye have Ephesians 1:17 - in the knowledge Ephesians 3:19 - to know Ephesians 4:13 - the knowledge Philippians 3:8 - the excellency Colossians 1:10 - increasing Colossians 2:2 - understanding Colossians 3:10 - knowledge 1 Timothy 2:5 - one God 2 Timothy 1:1 - the promise James 2:19 - General 2 Peter 1:2 - the knowledge 2 Peter 1:3 - through 2 Peter 3:18 - knowledge 1 John 1:2 - that eternal 1 John 1:3 - our fellowship 1 John 2:3 - we know 1 John 2:13 - because 1 John 2:25 - General 1 John 3:23 - his commandment 1 John 4:7 - and knoweth
Cross-References
At this Avraham fell on his face and laughed — he thought to himself, "Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah give birth at ninety?"
Avraham said to God, "If only Yishma‘el could live in your presence!"
Avraham took Yishma‘el his son, all the slaves born in his house and all who had been bought with his money, every male among the people in Avraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very day, just as God had said to him.
(Maftir) Avraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin,
I am the God of your father," he continued, "the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya‘akov." Moshe covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire assembled community of the people of Isra'el.
They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?"
Now Korach the son of Yitz'har, the son of K'hat, the son of Levi, along with Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av, and On, the son of Pelet, descendants of Re'uven, took men and rebelled against Moshe. Siding with them were 250 men of Isra'el, leaders of the community, key members of the council, men of reputation. They assembled themselves against Moshe and Aharon and said to them, "You take too much on yourselves! After all, the entire community is holy, every one of them, and Adonai is among them. So why do you lift yourselves up above Adonai 's assembly?" When Moshe heard this he fell on his face. Then he said to Korach and his whole group, "In the morning, Adonai will show who are his and who is the holy person he will allow to approach him. Yes, he will bring whomever he chooses near to himself. Do this: take censers, Korach and all your group; put fire in them; and put incense in them before Adonai tomorrow. The one whom Adonai chooses will be the one who is holy! It is you, you sons of Levi, who are taking too much on yourselves!" Then Moshe said to Korach, "Listen here, you sons of Levi! Is it for you a mere trifle that the God of Isra'el has separated you from the community of Isra'el to bring you close to himself, so that you can do the work in the tabernacle of Adonai and stand before the community serving them? He has brought you close and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you. Now you want the office of cohen too! That's why you and your group have gathered together against Adonai ! After all, what is Aharon that you complain against him?" Then Moshe sent to summon Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av. But they replied, "We won't come up! Is it such a mere trifle, bringing us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that now you arrogate to yourself the role of dictator over us? (ii) You haven't at all brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and you haven't put us in possession of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can gouge out these men's eyes and blind them? We won't come up!" Moshe was very angry and said to Adonai , "Don't accept their grain offering! I haven't taken one donkey from them, I've done nothing wrong to any of them." Moshe said to Korach, "You and your group, be there before Adonai tomorrow — you, they and Aharon. Each of you take his fire pan and put incense in it; every one of you, bring before Adonai his fire pan, 250 fire pans, you too, and Aharon — each one his fire pan." Each man took his fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it and stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting with Moshe and Aharon. Korach assembled all the group who were against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then the glory of Adonai appeared to the whole assembly. (iii) Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon, "Separate yourselves from this assembly; I'm going to destroy them right now!" They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?" Adonai answered Moshe, "Tell the assembly to move away from the homes of Korach, Datan and Aviram." Moshe got up and went to Datan and Aviram, and the leaders of Isra'el followed him. There he said to the assembly, "Leave the tents of these wicked men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you may be swept away in all their sins." So they moved away from all around the area where Korach, Datan and Aviram lived. Then Datan and Aviram came out and stood at the entrance to their tents with their wives, sons and little ones. Moshe said, "Here is how you will know that Adonai has sent me to do all these things and that I haven't done them out of my own ambition: if these men die a natural death like other people, only sharing the fate common to all humanity, then Adonai has not sent me. But if Adonai does something new — if the ground opens up and swallows them with everything they own, and they go down alive to Sh'ol — then you will understand that these men have had contempt for Adonai ." The moment he finished speaking, the ground under them split apart — the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all the people who had sided with Korach and everything they owned. So they and everything they owned went down alive into Sh'ol, the earth closed over them and their existence in the community ceased. All Isra'el around them fled at their shrieks, shouting, "The earth might swallow us too!" Then fire came out from Adonai and destroyed the 250 men who had offered the incense.
"No," he replied, "but I am the commander of Adonai 's army; I have come just now." Y'hoshua fell down with his face to the ground and worshipped him, then asked, "What does my lord have to say to his servant?"
as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of Adonai went up in the flame from the altar. When Manoach and his wife saw it, they fell to the ground on their faces.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And this is life eternal,.... That is, the beginning and pledge of it, the way unto it, and means of it, and what will certainly issue in it:
that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The knowledge of God here spoken of, is not the knowledge of him by the light of nature, and works of creation; for a man may know God in this sense, and not know him in Christ, nor anything of Christ; yea, may know God and profess him in words, and in works deny him, as the Heathens did; nor is eternal life known hereby, nor connected with it: nor is it such a knowledge of God as is to be obtained by the law of Moses, in which God is represented as a righteous and incensed Being; nor is there in it any discovery of God, as a God of love, grace, and mercy in Christ; nor any revelation of a Mediator, Saviour and Redeemer; nor can it either show, or give to persons eternal life; and yet what is here said of the knowledge of God and Christ, the Jews say of the law d,
"one man said to his friend, let us dash them against that wall and kill them, because they have left חיי עולם הבא, "eternal life"; (the gloss upon it is, תורה, "the law";) and employ themselves in a temporary life, the gloss says of this world, which is merchandise.''
More truly does Philo the Jew say e, that
"fleeing to the Divine Being, "is eternal life"; and running front him is death.''
But this is to be understood of an evangelic knowledge of God, as the God and Father of Christ, as the God of all grace, pardoning iniquity, transgression and sin, and of Christ Mediator; not a general, notional, and speculative knowledge; but a practical and experimental one; a knowledge of approbation and appropriation; a fiducial one, whereby a soul believes in Christ, and trusts in his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice for salvation; and which, though imperfect, is progressive. The Arians and Unitarians urge this text, against the true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus, and his equality with the Father, but without success; since the Father is called the only true God, in opposition to the many false gods of the Heathens, but not to the exclusion of the Son or Spirit; for Christ is also styled the one Lord, and only Lord God, but not to the exclusion of the Father; yea the true God and eternal life; was he not, he would never, as here, join himself with the only true God; and besides, eternal life is made to depend as much upon the knowledge of him, as of the Father. The reason of this different mode of expression, is owing to the character of Christ as Mediator, who is said to be sent by the only true God, about the business of man's salvation. Nor is it of any moment what the Jew f objects, that Jesus here confesses, that the true God is only one God; nor does he call himself God, only the Messiah sent by God; and that the Apostle Paul also asserts the unity of God, 1 Timothy 1:17; and therefore Jesus cannot be God: for Christ and his Father, the only true God, are one; and that he is the one true God with his Father, he tacitly suggests here by joining himself with him; and what the Apostle Paul says of the one and only wise God, may as well be understood of Christ, the Son of God, as of the Father; since all the characters in the text agree with him, and of him he had been speaking in the context.
d T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 21. 1. e De profugis, p. 461. f R. Isaac Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 55. p. 445.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This is life eternal - This is the source of eternal life; or it is in this manner that it is to be obtained. The knowledge of God and of his Son Jesus Christ is itself a source of unspeakable and eternal joy. Compare John 11:25; John 6:63; John 12:50.
Might know thee - The word “know” here, as in other places, expresses more than a mere speculative acquaintance with the character and perfections of God. “It includes all the impressions on the mind and life which a just view of God and of the Saviour is fitted to produce.” It includes, of course, love, reverence, obedience, honor, gratitude, supreme affection. “To know God as he is” is to know and regard him as a lawgiver, a sovereign, a parent, a friend. It is to yield the whole soul to him, and strive to obey his law.
The only true God - The only God, in opposition to all false gods. What is said here is in opposition to idols, not to Jesus himself, who, in 1 John 5:20, is called “the true God and eternal life.”
And Jesus Christ - To know Jesus Christ is to have a practical impression of him as he is - that is, to suffer his character and work to make their due impression on the heart and life. Simply to have heard that there is a Saviour is not to know it. To have been taught in childhood and trained up in the belief of it is not to know it. To know him is to have a just, practical view of him in all his perfections as God and man; as a mediator; as a prophet, a priest, and a king. It is to feel our need of such a Saviour, to see that we are sinners, and to yield the whole soul to him, knowing that he is a Saviour suited to our needs, and that in his hands our souls are safe. Compare Ephesians 3:19; Titus 1:16; Philippians 3:10; 1 John 5:20. In this verse is contained the sum and essence of the Christian religion, as it is distinguished from all the schemes of idolatry and philosophy, and all the false plans on which men have sought to obtain eternal life. The Gentiles worshipped many gods; the Christian worships one - the living and the true God; the Jew, the Deist, the Muslim, the Socinian, profess to acknowledge one God, without any atoning sacrifice and Mediator; the true Christian approaches him through the great Mediator, equal with the Father, who for us became incarnate, and died that he might reconcile us to God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 17:3. This is life eternal — The salvation purchased by Christ, and given to them who believe, is called life:
1. Because the life of man was forfeited to Divine justice; and the sacrifice of Christ redeemed him from that death to which he was exposed.
2. Because the souls of men were dead in trespasses and sins; and Christ quickens them by his word and Spirit.
3. Because men who are not saved by the grace of Christ do not live, they only exist, no good purpose of life being answered by them. But when they receive this salvation they live - answer all the Divine purposes, are happy in themselves, useful to each other, and bring glory to God.
4. It is called eternal life to show that it reaches beyond the limits of time, and that it necessarily implies -
1. The immortality of the soul;
2. the resurrection of the body; and
3. that it is never to end, hence called αιωνιος ζωη, a life ever living; from αει, always, and ων, being or existence. And indeed no words can more forcibly convey the idea of eternity than these. It is called η αιωνιος ζωη, THAT eternal life, by way of eminence. There may be an eternal existence without blessedness; but this is that eternal life with which infinite happiness is inseparably connected.
The only true God — The way to attain this eternal life is to acknowledge, worship, and obey, the one only true God, and to accept as teacher, sacrifice, and Saviour, the Lord Jesus, the one and only true Messiah. Bishop Pearce's remark here is well worthy the reader's attention: -
"What is said here of the only true God seems said in opposition to the gods whom the heathens worshipped; not in opposition to Jesus Christ himself, who is called the true God by John, in 1 John 5:20."
The words in this verse have been variously translated:
1. That they might acknowledge thee, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, to be the only true God.
2. That they might acknowledge thee, the only true God, and Jesus, whom thou hast sent, to be the Christ or Messiah.
3. That they might acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus Christ to be him whom thou hast sent. And all these translations the original will bear.
From all this we learn that the only way in which eternal life is to be attained is by acknowledging the true God, and the Divine mission of Jesus Christ, he being sent of God to redeem men by his blood, being the author of eternal salvation to all them that thus believe, and conscientiously keep his commandments.
A saying similar to this is found in the Institutes of Menu. Brigoo, the first emanated being who was produced from the mind of the supreme God, and who revealed the knowledge of his will to mankind, is represented as addressing the human race and saying: "Of all duties, the principal is to acquire from the Upanishads (their sacred writings) a true knowledge of one supreme God; that is the most exalted of sciences, because it ensures eternal life. For in the knowledge and adoration of one God all the rules of good conduct are fully comprised." See Institutes of Menu, chap. xii. Inst. 85, 87.
