Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
I pray (egw erwtw). Request, not question, as in John 16:23.
Not for the world (ou peri tou kosmou). Now at this point in the prayer Christ means. In verse John 17:19 Jesus does pray for the world (for future believers) that it may believe (verse John 17:21). God loves the whole world (John 3:16). Christ died for sinners (Romans 5:8) and prayed for sinners (Luke 23:34) and intercedes for sinners (I John 2:1 f.; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25).
For those whom (peri wn). A condensed and common Greek idiom for peri toutwn ouv with toutwn (the demonstrative antecedent) omitted and the relative ouv attracted from the accusative ouv (object of dedwkav) to the case (genitive) of the omitted antecedent.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 17:9:
John 6:37
John 13:1
John 14:16
John 16:26
John 17:1
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