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Greek for Sunday Text Preparations
EXEGETICAL
CONSIDERATIONS
7th
Sunday of Easter/May 12, 2002
John 17.1-11
1.
How does chapter 17 function
a.
As the literary climax of the farewell discourse of chapters 13-17?
b.
As the theological climax of the gospel?
c.
As the pivot to the passion and resurrection drama in chapters 18-20?
2.
What is significant about the addressee beginning in v. 1 compared to
the addressees of the previous four chapters?
a.
What is significant of the use of the vocative (pater)
in vv. 1,5,11,21,24,25?
b.
How does that relate to the same use of the vocative in 11:41;
12:27-28?
3.
What is John’s understanding of Jesus’ hour?
a.
What is the significance of using the perfect tense (eleluthen)
in v. 1 to say that his hour has come?
4.
In the ancient world, what does it mean to glorify/be glorified?
a.
In 17:1,4,5 what does it mean that Jesus glorifies God and God
glorifies Jesus?
b.
In 17:10 what does it mean that Jesus is glorified in the disciples?
5.
For John, of what does eternal life consist and when does one begin
to experience eternal life?
a.
What is the significance of Jesus praying about eternal life on the
eve of his death?
6.
How does 17:5 recall 1:1-5?
7.
What is John’s theology of the world (kosmos)?
a.
What does it mean that God has given Jesus the disciples out of the
world (v. 6)?
b.
What does it mean that Jesus does not prayer for the world (v. 9)?
c.
What does it mean that Jesus is no longer in the world but the
disciples are in the world?
8.
How has Jesus manifested/displayed God’s name to the disciples (v.
6)?
9.
How do vv. 7-8 reiterate the key themes of John’s gospel?
10.
How is the oneness that exists between God and Jesus related to the
oneness for between the disciples and Jesus for which Jesus now prays?
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