John 17:9
“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
10And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I have been glorified in them.
Cross References
Luke 8:34And when those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the city and in the country.
John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may abide with you forever,
John 17:2just as You have given Him authority over all flesh, so that He will give eternal life to all You have given Him.
John 17:20“I am not praying for these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word;
Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not enter into the holies made by hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf;
1 John 5:19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies under the sway of 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 →