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I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
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Revealing God's Character
Commentators explain that when Jesus says He “manifested thy name,” He means He revealed the very character, attributes, and will of God the Father. Jesus’s life, work, and words are the clearest and most complete picture of who God is. As one scholar notes, this is why Jesus could say elsewhere, “He that has seen me has seen the Father.”
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Have manifested your name. The word name here includes the attributes or character of God. Jesus had made known his character, hi…
I manifested (εφανερωσα). First aorist active indicative of φανεροω (from φανερος, manifest). Another word for claiming successful…
19th Century
Anglican
I have manifested (or better, I manifested) your name to the men whom you gave me (or …
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Baptist
I have manifested your name to the men which you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your wo…
The disciples have been given to Jesus by the Father. The gift was irrevocable and the Father was able to guarantee it. Jesus has no doubt of the f…
16th Century
Protestant
I have manifested your name. Here Christ begins to pray to the Father for His disciples. With the same warmth of love with which He was so…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I have manifested your name Not the "Nomen Tetragrammaton", the name of four letters, the name "Jehovah", and which …
Christ prays for those who are His. You gave them to Me, as sheep to the shepherd, to be kept; as a patient to the physician, to be cured; as child…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, our Lord prayed for Himself; here He prays for the company of His apostles.
First, He states His reasons for praying. Secon…
