John 17:14
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.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
13But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that my joy may be complete in them.
15I pray not, that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from evil:
Cross References
Matthew 10:24No disciple is better than his rabbi; nor a servant, than his lord.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth; because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
John 15:18And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you.
1 Peter 4:4And lo, they now wonder, and reproach you, because ye revel not with them in the same former dissoluteness;
1 John 4:5And they are of the world: therefore they speak from the world, and the world heareth 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 →