For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, “I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.