This prayer of Jesus is the longest recorded prayer he prayed. Once again, in connection with the hour, is the glory of the Father and the glory of the Son being the result. He started in his prayer by addressing the father and saying, “Father, the hour is come glorify thy son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.” The timing of this was in the night that he would soon be taken before the high priest. In John 17:1, when Jesus was on his way to the Garden of Gethsemane, he stopped at some point and prayed what is recorded in chapter 17. Verse 33 says, “this he said signifying what death he should die.” Verse 32 tells us it is God’s desire for all people to be drawn to the one who was lifted up on the cross as Saviour and Lord. So we can see that both the Father and the Son are glorified as the result of the work of Jesus on the cross. The prayer of Jesus that is connected to this is found in verse 28, where Jesus prays, “Father, glorify Thy name.” It was this that was meant by him saying, “for this cause came I unto this hour.” Verse 27 shows us that Jesus knew all about what was ahead for him in suffering and death on the cross in that he spoke of being troubled. Jesus spoke of a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying and the result of that is a new plant with life. The suffering on the cross was before the Lord. Further down the chapter, in verse 12, it says, “on the next day” - or five days before the Passover. In the Bible, in John 12:23, Jesus said, “The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.”Ĭhapter 12 starts by stating it was six days before the Passover. In addition, in two of the times he spoke of being troubled about this time of suffering and death he was going to endure. In two of the three times, Jesus refers to glory or honour being the result of “The Hour” that had come. He did not call it his finest hour, but he came from Heaven to Earth for this purpose of giving his life for our sins.Īll three times are accompanied by prayer of Jesus, which is an indication of the consistent and unbroken fellowship of Jesus with his father. Sometimes people say, regarding an event they are anticipating, “This will be our finest hour.”Įach time Jesus used these words, he was referring to his time of suffering at the hands of men and his sacrifice and death on the cross. Let’s look at three times the Lord Jesus said the words, “The hour has come.”Īll three times took place in the last week leading up to the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for our sins.
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