John 17 Christ High Priestly Intercessory Prayer (Part 2):

Christ High Priestly Intercessory Prayer (Part 2):

Christ As High Priest And Intercessor

Hebrews 4:13-16

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest,that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession.

15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities;

but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and 

find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 6:19-20

Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which 

entereth into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 9:28

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him

shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him,and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth (not practicing the truth):

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, 

and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse 

us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 2:1-10

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] 

the whole world.

3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Jesus Commandments:

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have

 loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all [men] know that ye are my 

disciples, if ye have love one to another.

1 John 2:1-10 (continued)

4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you,which thing is true in him and in you: 

because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light,and there is none occasion of stumbling inhim.

Hebrews 9:1-28 

1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him

shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

* C.I. Scofield Reference Notes

John 17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

* [1] Glorify

Seven petitions:

(1) That Jesus may be glorified as the Son who has glorified the Father (John 17:1), 

Philippians 2:9-11.

(2) for restoration to the eternal glory (John 17:5);

(3) For the safety of believers from

(a) the world (John 17:11)

(b) the evil one (John 17:15);

(4) for the sanctification of believers (John 17:17);

(5) for the spiritual unity of believers (John 17:21);

(6) that the world may believe (John 17:21);

(7) that believers may be with Him in heaven to behold and share His glory (John 17:24).

2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
* [2] give eternal life

Christ's gifts to those whom the Father gave Him: 

• Eternal life John 17:2; 

• The Father's name (John 17:6,26 20:17)

• The Father's words (John 17:8,14)

• His own joy (John 17:13)

• His own glory (John 17:22)

[3] given him

Seven times Jesus speaks of believers as given to Him by the Father

(John 17:2,6,9,11,12,24)

• Jesus Christ is God's love-gift to the world (John 3:16)

• And believers are the Father's love-gift to Jesus Christ. 

• It is Christ who commits the believer to the Father for safe keeping, so that the 

believer's security rests upon the Father's faithfulness to His Son Jesus Christ.

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 

whom thou hast sent.

4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with
thee before the world was.

6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine

they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
* Margin world

• World; Is the Greek word; kosmos = mankind. See Scofield Note: "Matthew 4:8".

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

8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received

[them], and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that

thou didst send me.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for 

they are thine.
* Margin world

• World; kosmos = world-system. John 17:14,16 7:7. See Scofield Note: "Revelation 13:8".

10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. 

Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they 

may be one, as we [are].

12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest 

me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might 

be fulfilled.

13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my 

joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep 

them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through 

their word;

21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these

have known that thou hast sent me.

26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it]: that the love where with thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.