Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                   Chapter Seventeen

                                                                                                                                               Verses 1-5

Jesus stopped preaching and began to pray to His Father. He prayed for Himself, for His Church, and for all of humanity.

Jesus prayed that His Father would glorify Him by allowing Him to demonstrate His Father's Almighty Love for all of humanity by His sacrifice on a cross to save the entire human race. Jesus also prayed that He would glorify His Father by submitting Himself in complete obedience to His Father's Will. Jesus' disciples heard Jesus pray that His Father had given Him power over all flesh. Christ can never lose His power which can only mean that He will save the whole human race with a higher and a lower form of salvation. Matthew 28:18. His disciples also heard Him pray that His Father would give eternal life to all humans who belong to Him, and all creation belongs to Jesus because He created it all. Hebrews 1:1-3.

Christ has power over all flesh because He created every human, and they all belong to Him. Christ created them all in His image and gave life to them all which He can never lose. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. Daniel and John the Baptist prophesied, and the rest of the Bible (KJB) clearly teaches, that Jesus came to destroy all sin and evil and the Devil, not living humans whom He creates and loves. Daniel 9:24; John 1:29; Luke 20:38. Christ suffered and died on the cross to purge all sins, evil, and the influence of the Devil from all of humanity and to draw all living humans to Himself in renewed repentance and faith so that He can save them all from the Devil's eternal control. John 12:31-32; John 12:48; I Timothy 4:10; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 2:9-15; I John 3:8. Jesus has all power over all human life because He creates every human life in His image, and He can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. If Christ should ever lose a single human life to the eternal torture of the Devil, then Christ would lose His power over that life and that can never happen. Jesus prayed that His Father would give eternal life to the whole human race because every living human belongs to Him. Christ simply gives eternal life to the whole human race in two different ways. Christ gives eternal life through His grace to all living humans who repent and believe in Him while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. Christ gives eternal life to all living humans whom He has temporarily lost to the Devil when Christ visits them in the regions of death and because of His Majesty and His great Love that they will see, He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior of their own free will so that He can recover their lives and recreate them to live righteous lives forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5.