The Narrow Path Ministries

John 17;22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

what is this glory that the Father gave the Son before the cross and resurrection that he did not have before it was given him? It seems to be a glory that brings unity....

Any thoughts? thanks

Perhaps the following is a possibility:

Though Jesus was in perfect unity with his Father prior to his incarnation, he had to learn this unity as a human being. Thus his Father constantly taught him and gave him that "glory" again that he had with the Father prior to his incarnation so that he would continue in this complete unity with the Father even as a complete human being. Christ gave this same "glory" to his disciples, so that they would come into the same unity that existed between the Father and the Son, during the Son's sojourn in this world.