Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 17:9-10

"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them." — John 17:9-10 (ASV)

I pray for them: I pray not for the world but for them whom you have given me, for they are yours. And all mine are yours, and yours are mine: and I am glorified in them.

Is not this a wonderful prayer? If anybody, possessing the greatest possible inventive faculty, were asked to produce a prayer that could be fittingly prayed by a person who was both God and man, it would be an impossible task. This chapter has about it all the air of truthfulness; it ought to be sufficient to convince anyone that Christ was God and man. There is such a wonderful mixing of the two natures, without any confusion of ideas, so manifestly does he plead as man, and yet so clearly does he also pray as only the Son of God could pray, that he must be the God-man, the one mediator between God and man.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

Oh, the blessed union of interests between Christ and the Father!

How surely do we belong to the Father if we truly belong to Christ, and what a holy unity is thus established!

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

See what perfect union there is between the Father and the Son, and note their mutual relationship to the chosen people, They are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine.

for they are yours. And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them.

It is a wonderful thing that Christ is glorified in his people. Can it be that he will be glorified in me? Dear child of God, you sometimes sit in the corner, and think to yourself, "How insignificant I am! The church on earth would not miss me if I were taken away; and the choirs of heaven cannot need me." Oh, but your Lord is glorified in you! If you are one of his chosen and redeemed people, in your very weakness and need he finds opportunity to glorify his strength and his fullness. He knows the truth about this matter, and he says, I am glorified in them.