7Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.
8For I have given to them the words awhich You have given Me; and they have received them,band have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that cYou sent Me.
9“I pray for them. aI do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
10And all Mine are Yours, and aYours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
11aNow I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, bkeep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one cas We are.
12While I was with them in the world,aI kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and bnone of them is lost cexcept the son of perdition, dthat the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14I have given them Your word; aand the world has hated them because they are not of the world, bjust as I am not of the world.
15I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but athat You should keep them from the evil one.
16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17aSanctify them by Your truth. bYour word is truth.
18aAs You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19And afor their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who1will believe in Me through their word;
21athat they all may be one, as bYou, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22And the aglory which You gave Me I have given them, bthat they may be one just as We are one:
23I in them, and You in Me; athat they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
24a“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; bfor You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
25O righteous Father! aThe world has not known You, but bI have known You; and cthese have known that You sent Me.
26aAnd I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love bwith which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
I pray not for the world - Not in these petitions, which are adapted to the state of believers only. (He prays for the world at John 17:21, John 17:23, that they may believe - That they may know God hath sent him.) This no more proves that our Lord did not pray for the world, both before and afterward, than his praying for the apostles alone, John 17:6-19, proves that he did not pray for them also which shall believe through their word, John 17:20.
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