John 17:14

I have given them your message. As a result, those who are opposed to you [MTY] have hated them, because my disciples do not belong to those who oppose you [MTY], just like I do not belong to those who oppose you [MTY].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

In Context

13Father, now I am about to return to you. I have said these things while I am still here in the world in order that my disciples may fully experience being joyful, as I have been joyful.

15I am asking you, not that you take them out of this world, but instead that you protect them from Satan, the evil one.

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:27Righteous people hate/detest those who do what is evil, and wicked people hate those whose behavior is always good.

Matthew 10:24A disciple should not expect to be greater than his teacher, and servants are not superior to their master.

John 7:7The people [MTY] who ◄ do not believe in me/do not belong to God► cannot hate you, but they hate me because I tell them that what they are doing is evil.

John 15:18“The people who are opposed to God will hate you. When that happens, remember that they hated me first.

1 Peter 4:4Because you used to do those things, your friends are surprised that you do not join them any more when they participate in that kind of wild behavior that ◄ is rushing to/will quickly► destroy them like [MET] a flood. As a result, they say evil things about you.

1 John 4:5As for those who are teaching what is false, they are ◄godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God► [MTY]. Because of that, they teach what ◄godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God► [MTY] want to hear. That is why the ◄godless people/people whose lives displease God► [MTY] listen to them.

Matthew Henry on John 17:12-17

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled… Read the whole commentary →

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