John 17: Given, Kept, and Loved — Scripture for the High Priestly Prayer.

 

A widely shared video says the “secret” of John 17 is that Jesus prays only for those the Father gave Him, and that Calvin spotted it. Is it in the text, or is it a system laid on the text?

After consulting with the AI tool "Grok" I gave it a brief: With the transcript of the above video - gather from scripture - by taking each point made in the video - and find verses which relate to that point. Scripture - in the most important doctrines - often repeats itself through different authors or different expressions, to say the same thing. Many people will hear this video - which I wholeheartedly agree with - but write it off as they feel it lacks supporting evidence from other scriptures. So the point of this exercise is to offer supporting scriptural evidence, and also to explore how Arminians or provisionists re-interpret The High Priestly Prayer of John 17, or offer objections to Calvin's reading of it - meet those objections. The following is what amounts to about 27 pages of supporting evidence for Calvin's exposition of the relevant scriptures referenced in the video: SCRIPTURE FOR THE HIGH PRIESTLY PRAYER John 17 — Point-by-Point Biblical Support