Now they understand that all the things that[a] you have given me are from you, because the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they received them[b] and know truly that I have come from you, and they have believed that you have sent me. I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. John 17:7 Literally “whatever”
  2. John 17:8 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation