17:3
Eternal life is not just what happens after we die. We get a foretaste of it now. For eternal life is to know God, and to know Jesus Christ who was sent by God. Knowing God is what we should seek after above all else. The world is a mess, and we as individuals get into a mess because we do not know God. And the solution to our problems is to know God. When we know God everything is different.
17:4,5
Jesus gave glory to God on earth. How did He do this? Above all else by being obedient to God even to the extent of going to the cross. In doing this He declared that obeying God was more important than any shame or suffering that might be inflicted on Him. He chose to obey God rather than give in to the world.
Jesus then prays to the Father to glorify Him in His presence. Jesus was going to the Father, He would be in God’s presence again. Jesus would be glorified with the “glory that [He] had with You before the world existed”. So this tells us a lot about the glory that Jesus had. He was before the world existed, and we know from Col 1:15,16 that all things were created through Him.
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