John 17:14
I have given unto them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
15I do not pray that you may take them out of the world, but that you may keep them from the evil one.
Cross References
Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his lord.
John 7:7The world is not able to hate you; but it hates me, because I testify against it, that its works are evil.
John 15:18If the world hates you, know that it first hated me.
1 Peter 4:4in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;
1 John 4:5They are of the world: on this account they speak of the world, and the world hears 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 →