John 17:9-13

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  17:10 Everything ⁴  I have belongs to you, ⁵  and everything you have belongs to me, ⁶  and I have been glorified by them. ⁷  17:11 I ⁸  am no longer in the world, but ⁹  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ¹⁰  in your name ¹¹  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ¹²  17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe ¹³  and watched over them ¹⁴  in your name ¹⁵  that you have given me. Not one ¹⁶  of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, ¹⁷  so that the scripture could be fulfilled. ¹⁸  17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience ¹⁹  my joy completed ²⁰  in themselves.

[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.”

[17:10]  ⁴ tn Grk And all things.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:10]  ⁵ tn Or “Everything I have is yours.”

[17:10]  ⁶ tn Or “everything you have is mine.”

[17:10]  ⁷ tn Or “I have been honored among them.”

[17:11]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

[17:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

[17:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:11]  ¹² tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.

[17:12]  ¹³ tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”

[17:12]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “and guarded them.”

[17:12]  ¹⁵ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:12]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).

[17:12]  ¹⁸ 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.

[17:13]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “they may have.”

[17:13]  ²⁰ tn Or “fulfilled.”