John 17:9
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
10and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.
Cross References
Luke 8:34And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
John 14:16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
John 17:2even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that whatsoever thou hast given him, to them he should give eternal life.
John 17:20Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;
Hebrews 9:24For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in 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 →