John 17:14
I have given them yoʋr word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
15I do not ask yoʋ to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
Cross References
Matthew 10:24“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor is a servant above his master.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify that its works are evil.
John 15:18“If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
1 Peter 4:4They are surprised when you do not run with them into the same flood of debauchery, so they revile you.
1 John 4:5They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens 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 →