9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
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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:
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
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.
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
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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 bel…
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