Joh 17:22-23 | KingComments | STEP | Now the Son is going to speak about the period after the disciples’ stay in the world. He is thinking of the time when they will be with Him. Then they will have the glory that He has received. In His prayer He says that He has already given to them the glory that He has received from the Father. That is the glory that He received from the Father as Man as a reward for His work. In His great mercy, He shares that glory with those whom the Father has given Him ( ) and to whom He has also already given eternal life ( ). Precisely because He as Man has received that glory from the Father, He can share it with men. As a result, all who share this glory are one in the same way He and the Father are one. It also involves a glory that comes from the Father, which He has given to the Son, and which the Son then grants to the believers. As a result, the Lord Jesus can say that it is a unity whereby He is also in them and whereby the Father is in Him. “I in them and You in Me” means that the Son reveals Himself in the believers when He returns, a revelation in which the Father will also be revealed in Him. When that situation has come, believers have become perfectly one. This is a third unity, after the unity of the apostles in and that of all believers now on earth in . In this futural, perfect unity, no failure is possible. When Christ returns with His own in glory, they will have the same glory as He ( ) and the unity will be seen by the world. The world will see the Father in the Son and they will see the Son in the saints. Then the world will know that the Father sent the Son and that the Father loved the believers as He loved the Son, for this cannot be denied when the world will see Christ and His own in glory ( ). The world will also know that the Father has loved us, for the fact that the believers will possess the same glory as Christ, will be proof of it. What the world will then acknowledge is true now. What the world will then see points back to what He and also they were on earth as objects of the Father’s love.

‏ John 17:22-23

Unity in Glory

Now the Son is going to speak about the period after the disciples’ stay in the world. He is thinking of the time when they will be with Him. Then they will have the glory that He has received. In His prayer He says that He has already given to them the glory that He has received from the Father. That is the glory that He received from the Father as Man as a reward for His work. In His great mercy, He shares that glory with those whom the Father has given Him (Jn 17:6) and to whom He has also already given eternal life (Jn 17:2). Precisely because He as Man has received that glory from the Father, He can share it with men.

As a result, all who share this glory are one in the same way He and the Father are one. It also involves a glory that comes from the Father, which He has given to the Son, and which the Son then grants to the believers. As a result, the Lord Jesus can say that it is a unity whereby He is also in them and whereby the Father is in Him. “I in them and You in Me” means that the Son reveals Himself in the believers when He returns, a revelation in which the Father will also be revealed in Him. When that situation has come, believers have become perfectly one. This is a third unity, after the unity of the apostles in Jn 17:11 and that of all believers now on earth in Jn 17:21.

In this futural, perfect unity, no failure is possible. When Christ returns with His own in glory, they will have the same glory as He (Phil 3:20-21) and the unity will be seen by the world. The world will see the Father in the Son and they will see the Son in the saints. Then the world will know that the Father sent the Son and that the Father loved the believers as He loved the Son, for this cannot be denied when the world will see Christ and His own in glory (2Thes 1:10).

The world will also know that the Father has loved us, for the fact that the believers will possess the same glory as Christ, will be proof of it. What the world will then acknowledge is true now. What the world will then see points back to what He and also they were on earth as objects of the Father’s love.