17:24
This most amazing prayer continues. Jesus now prays that we may be with Him where He is. I.e. that we will be with Jesus with the Father. He wants us to see His glory. The Father loved the Son before the creation of the world. Jesus is not a created being, He is not foremost among creation. Jesus is eternally the Son of God. He always has been and always will be. At present we do not see the glory of Christ in all its fullness. We see some of that glory. As Paul says in 1 Cor 13:12, we see through a glass dimly. One day we will see Him face to face, in all His glory.
17:25
The world does not know Christ and does not know the Father. That is tragic, because it leads to all the problems and suffering that we see in our own lives and in the world around us. However, there is hope, for Jesus knows the Father, and we know that the Father has sent the Son. Our knowing Christ is the hope for the world. So we should seek to know Him better, to love Him better and to trust and obey Him better.
17:26
Christ has revealed the character of God to us, the Name of God. For all the fullness of God dwells in Christ (Col 2:9). Jesus continues to make it known. He does this through the Holy Spirit and through the church. And Christ wants the love with which the Father loved Him may be in us, and that Christ may be in us.
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