John 17:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

John 17:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 109:6-19
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. …
John 10:27-28
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: …
John 18:9
That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
John 13:18
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
John 6:37
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-16)

After the general pleas with which Christ recommended his disciples to his Father’s care follow the particular petitions he puts up for them; and, 1. They all relate to spiritual blessings in heavenly things. He does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, that they might raise estates and get preferments, but that they might be kept from sin, and furnished for their duty, and bro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

9-14. I pray for them--not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on Joh 17:20). not for the world--for they had been given Him “out of the world” (Joh 17:6), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such.