"' HEREAFTER I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; and that as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise let us go hence.”
PARAPHRASE.
Hereafter I will not talk much with you, having now to do with Satan, the prince of this world. True it is, he has "nothing," no part whatever in me, no claim upon me, the Holy One of God; nevertheless, in order to give the world full proof that I love the Father, and that (His will being my law, the rule of my life), in my 'every action it is my object to please Him, I now, in obedience to Him, to the commandment which He has given me; go forth to meet and encounter the enemy:—ARISE, LET US GO HENCE.
N. B. Here the Lord, with His disciples, gets up from the table, and goes forth. The rest of His discourse therefore is uttered on His way to Gethsemane. In chapter 17 He pauses, we believe, and standing still while addressing His Father, He prays for His people.