Through their word (δια του λογου αυτων). Through the agency of conversation and preaching, blessed privilege open to all believer…

Neither pray I for these alone, and so on. This prayer is not for the apostles only, but for all who will be converted under the preaching…

Neither pray I for these alone.—Compare Note on John 17:9. The thought of the work to which the Apostles are to be consec…

Your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself tha…

St. Augustine of Hippo: When our Lord had prayed for His disciples, whom He also named Apostles, He added a prayer for all other…

The last section of Jesus’ prayer shows that he expects the failure of the disciples to be only temporary. The entire tone of the farewell discours…

And I ask not for these only. He now gives a wider range to His prayer, which until now had included the apostles alone; for He extends it…

Neither pray I for these alone
Meaning his immediate apostles and disciples, for whose preservation and sanctificati…

Our Lord especially prayed that all believers might be as one body under one head, animated by one soul, by their union with Christ and the Father …

1. After our Lord prayed for his disciples, he now prays in general for all the faithful (in chapter 17, lecture 3).

   First, we see hi…