20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
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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. …
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, …
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-23)Next to their purity he prays for their unity; for the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable ; and amity is amiable indeed when it is like the ointment on Aaron’s holy head, and the dew on Zion’s holy hill. Observe, I. Who are included in this prayer (John 17:20): “ Not these only , not these only that are now my disciples” (the eleven, the seventy, with others, men and women that follow…
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