John 17:9

Father, I am just asking you to look after the people you gave me. I am not talking about the people that belong to this world.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

In Context

8I told them the message that you told me, and they believed it. Now they know for sure that you sent me to the world.

10All my people are your people, and all your people are mine. And they show other people that I am great and powerful.

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Cross References

John 14:16And I will ask my father to send you another helper. He will come to you and stay with you for ever.

John 17:2You gave me power over everyone, so that I can give life to the people you gave me, so they will live with you for ever.

John 17:20Jesus kept on talking to God. He said, “I am not asking that you only help these followers here with me now. Later they will tell other people about me, and some of those people will believe in me. So I am asking you to help those other people too.

1 John 5:19We know that we belong to God. But the devil has power over everyone else in the world.

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 →

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