Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 17:7

"Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:" — John 17:7 (ASV)

Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you.

The Father gives Christ the truth which Christ gives to us. The Father gives Christ the souls which Jesus keeps until the day of his power. There is mutual communion between God the Father and his blessed Son; let us never say a word that might look as if we did not understand the oneness—the everlasting and infinite oneness—which there is between the sacred persons of the Divine Unity.

Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

"They have learned to link the Father and the Son; they know that though I am the channel of all blessing, yet you, O my Father, are the fountain from which it flows."

"Jesus, we bless your Father's name
Your God and ours are both the same;
What heavenly blessings from his throne
Flow down to sinners through his Son!"

Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

How the blessed Christ loves to lay aside all honour to himself even in his own gospel! He said that the things which he had taught to his disciples were not his own; they were the Father's. The Father always honours the Son, and the Son takes care always to honour the Father.