John 17:18
Just as you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
In Context
17Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.
19And it is for them that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified in truth.
Cross References
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,
Matthew 23:34For this reason, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men, and scribes. And some of these you will put to death and crucify; and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
John 17:3And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:21So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:25Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you sent me.
2 Corinthians 5:20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.
Matthew Henry on John 17:18-20
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. The next thing he prayed for for them was that they might be sanctified; not only kept from evil, but made good. I. Here is the petition ( v. 17 ): Sanctify them through thy truth, through thy word, for thy word is truth; it is true—it is truth itself.… Read the whole commentary →