John 17:12

John 17:12

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.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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I kept (ethroun). Imperfect active of threw, "I continued to keep."

I guarded (efulaca). First aorist (constative) active of fulassw. Christ was the sentinel (fulac, Acts 5:23) for them. Is he our sentinel now?

But the son of perdition (ei mh o uiov thv apwleiav). The very phrase for antichrist (II Thessalonians 2:3). Note play on apwleto, perished (second aorist middle indicative of apollumi). It means the son marked by final loss, not annihilation, but meeting one's destiny (Acts 2:25). A sad and terrible exception (Mark 14:21).

The scripture (h grafh). It is not clear whether this is John's own comment or the word of Jesus. Not in John 18:9. The Scripture referred to is probably Psalms 41:9 quoted in John 13:18 with the same formula ina plhrwqh which see there.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 17:12:**

John 3:16
John 5:43
John 6:37
John 10:28
John 12:36
John 13:18
John 17:1
John 17:6
John 18:9
2 Thessalonians 2:3
1 John 5:18
Revelation 3:10

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