John 17:9
I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; because they are thine.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
10And all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Cross References
Luke 8:34And seeing what was done the herdsmen fled, and reported it in the city and in the country,
John 14:16And I will ask of the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you forever;
John 17:2as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life.
John 17:20And I pray not for these only, but also for those who believe on me through their word;
Hebrews 9:24For Christ entered not into holy places made with hands, figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the evil one.
Matthew Henry on John 17:7-11
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou… Read the whole commentary →