John 17:9
I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are your own –
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10All that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine – and I am honored in them.
Cross References
Luke 8:34When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around.
John 14:16and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, to be with you always – the Spirit of truth.
John 17:2even as you gave him power over all humanity, so that he should give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
John 17:20But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their message,
Hebrews 9:24For it was not into a sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
1 John 5:19We know that we are God’s children, though the whole world lies in the power 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 →