John 17:9

17:9 I am praying ¹  on behalf of them. I am not praying ²  on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. ³ 

John 17:11-12

17:11 I ⁴  am no longer in the world, but ⁵  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ⁶  in your name ⁷  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ⁸  17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe ⁹  and watched over them ¹⁰  in your name ¹¹  that you have given me. Not one ¹²  of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, ¹³  so that the scripture could be fulfilled. ¹⁴ 

[17:9]  ¹ tn Grk “I am asking.”

[17:9]  ² tn Grk “I am not asking.”

[17:9]  ³ tn Or “because they are yours.”

[17:11]  ⁴ tn Grk And I.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:11]  ⁵ tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

[17:11]  ⁶ tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

[17:11]  ⁷ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:11]  ⁸ tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.

[17:12]  ⁷ tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”

[17:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “and guarded them.”

[17:12]  ⁹ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk And not one.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:12]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).

[17:12]  ¹² sn A possible allusion to Ps 41:9 or Prov 24:22 LXX. The exact passage is not specified here, but in John 13:18, Ps 41:9 is explicitly quoted by Jesus with reference to the traitor, suggesting that this is the passage to which Jesus refers here. The previous mention of Ps 41:9 in John 13:18 probably explains why the author felt no need for an explanatory parenthetical note here. It is also possible that the passage referred to here is Prov 24:22 LXX, where in the Greek text the phrase “son of destruction” appears.