John 17:18
Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
English Majority Text (NT)
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 by Your truth; Your word is truth.
Cross References
Matthew 23:34Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will 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 that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
John 17:25O righteous Father! Indeed the world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
2 Corinthians 5:20Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, 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 →