Yohanes 17:6

Jesus Prays for the Disciples

17:6 “I have revealed ¹  your name to the men ²  you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, ³  and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed ⁴  your word.

Yohanes 17:9

17:9 I am praying ⁵  on behalf of them. I am not praying ⁶  on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. ⁷ 

Yohanes 17:12

17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe ⁸  and watched over them ⁹  in your name ¹⁰  that you have given me. Not one ¹¹  of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, ¹²  so that the scripture could be fulfilled. ¹³ 

Yohanes 6:37

6:37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. ¹⁴ 

Yohanes 6:39

6:39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up ¹⁵  at the last day.

[17:6]  ¹ tn Or “made known,” “disclosed.”

[17:6]  ² tn Here “men” is retained as a translation for ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") rather than the more generic “people” because in context it specifically refers to the eleven men Jesus had chosen as apostles (Judas had already departed, John 13:30). If one understands the referent here to be the broader group of Jesus’ followers that included both men and women, a translation like “to the people” should be used here instead.

[17:6]  ³ tn Grk “Yours they were.”

[17:6]  ⁴ tn Or “have kept.”

[17:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “I am asking.”

[17:9]  ⁶ tn Grk “I am not asking.”

[17:9]  ⁷ tn Or “because they are yours.”

[17:12]  ⁸ tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”

[17:12]  ⁹ tn Grk “and guarded them.”

[17:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “by your name.”

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

[17:12]  sn The one destined to destruction refers to Judas. Clearly in John’s Gospel Judas is portrayed as a tool of Satan. He is described as “the devil” in 6:70. In 13:2 Satan put into Judas’ heart the idea of betraying Jesus, and 13:27 Satan himself entered Judas. Immediately after this Judas left the company of Jesus and the other disciples and went out into the realm of darkness (13:30). Cf. 2 Thess 2:3, where this same Greek phrase (“the son of destruction”; see tn above) is used to describe the man through whom Satan acts to rebel against God in the last days.

[17:12]  ¹³ 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.

[6:37]  ¹⁴ tn Or “drive away”; Grk “cast out.”

[6:39]  ¹⁵ tn Or “resurrect them all,” or “make them all live again”; Grk “raise it up.” The word “all” is supplied to bring out the collective nature of the neuter singular pronoun αὐτό (auto) in Greek. The plural pronoun “them” is used rather than neuter singular “it” because this is clearer in English, which does not use neuter collective singulars in the same way Greek does.