John 17:18

You sent me into the world to tell people your message, and just like that, I am sending them into the world to tell people your message.

Plain English 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 your own special people, that only listen to your true message. Your word is that true message.

19And I am giving myself to you to do your work. I will do that to help my followers, so that they will give themselves to you to do your work, and only listen to your true message.”

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Cross References

John 17:3Yes, if people know you, and if they know that you are the only real God, and if they know me, and if they know that I am the Christ that you sent to them, those people will live with us for ever.

John 17:21Join them all together, Father, and make them one mob, just like you and me are joined together. It’s like you are in me, and I am in you. I want you to join them to us in the same way, so it’s like they are in us. Then people in the world can believe that you sent me to the world.

John 17:25Father, you always do what is right. But the people that belong to this world don’t know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me to the world.

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 →

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