John 17:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

John 17:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 9:24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
John 17:2
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
John 17:6
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.
Luke 22:32
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
John 17:20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

Topics

Chosen, or Elected Contingencies Decrees, Divine Election Foreordination God Predestination

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-10)

Christ, having prayed for himself, comes next to pray for those that are his, and he knew them by name, though he did not here name them. Now observe here, I. Whom he did not pray for (John 17:9): I pray not for the world. Note, There is a world of people that Jesus Christ did not pray for. It is not meant of the world of mankind general (he prays for that here, John 17:21; That the world may beli…

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

(vv. 9)

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.