John 17:18
Just as you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
Free Bible 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
17Make them holy by the truth; your word is truth.
19I dedicate myself for them so that they may also be truly holy.
Cross References
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to announce liberation to the captives, to set the prisoners free,
Matthew 23:34That's why I'm sending you prophets, wise men, and teachers. Some of them you will kill, some of them you will crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues, hunting them from town to town.
John 17:3Eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
John 17:21I pray that they all may be one, just as you, Father, live in me, and I live in you, so that they too may live in us so that the world will believe you did send me.
John 17:25Good Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these here with me know that you sent me.
2 Corinthians 5:20So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is pleading through us: “Please, won't you come back and be God's friend?”
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 →