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7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.
8 For 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.  
10 And all Mine are Yours, and aYours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.  
11 aNow 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.  
12 While 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.  
13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I 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.  
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but athat You should keep them from the evil one.  
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 aSanctify them by Your truth. bYour word is truth.  
18 aAs You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.  
19 And 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 who1 will believe in Me through their word;  
21 athat 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.  
22 And the aglory which You gave Me I have given them, bthat they may be one just as We are one:  
23 I 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.  
24 a“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.  
25 O righteous Father! aThe world has not known You, but bI have known You; and cthese have known that You sent Me.  
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John 17:9

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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