John 17:9
I am praying for them. I am not praying for those who do not belong to you [MTY]. Instead, I am praying for those whom you have brought to me, because they belong to you.
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Luke 8:34When the men who were taking care of the pigs saw what happened, they ran! They told people inside the town and outside the town what had happened.
John 14:16Then I myself will request my Father, and he will send you someone else who will ◄encourage/be like a legal counsel for► you.
John 17:2You gave me authority over all people, in order that I might enable all those whom you chose to come to me to live eternally.
John 17:20“I am praying not only for these eleven disciples. I am praying also for those who will believe in me as a result of hearing their message.
Hebrews 9:24Christ did not enter a sanctuary that humans made. That one only represented the true sanctuary. Instead, he entered heaven itself, in order to now be in God’s presence to plead with God for us.
1 John 5:19We know that we belong to God, and we know that the evil one controls all the evil people in [MTY] 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 →