John 17:9
"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,
Weymouth NT (1912)
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Luke 8:34The swineherds, seeing what had happened, fled and reported it both in town and country;
John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.
John 17:2even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages.
John 17:20"Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;
Hebrews 9:24For not into a Holy place built by men's hands--a mere copy of the reality--did Christ enter, but He entered Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
1 John 5:19We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one.
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 →