John 17:18
Just as You sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
Family 35 New Testament
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.
19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Cross References
Matthew 23:34So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city
John 17:3Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.
John 17:21that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in me and I in You; that in Us they also may be one, so that the world may believe that You sent me.
John 17:25Righteous Father! Indeed the world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent me.
2 Corinthians 5:20So then, we are Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal 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 →