John 17:9

Plain English Version

Father, I am just asking you to look after the people you gave me. I am not talking about the people that belong to this world.

Cross References

John 14:16

And I will ask my father to send you another helper. He will come to you and stay with you for ever.

John 17:2

You gave me power over everyone, so that I can give life to the people you gave me, so they will live with you for ever.

John 17:20

Jesus kept on talking to God. He said, “I am not asking that you only help these followers here with me now. Later they will tell other people about me, and some of those people will believe in me. So I am asking you to help those other people too.

John 17:6

You gave me some people from the world, and I showed them what you are like. They were your people, but you gave them to me. I taught them your word, and they did what you said.

John 6:37

You see, my father gives me some people. They will all come to me, and I will look after them. I will never send them away.

John 6:39

Listen, this is what my father really wants me to do, he wants me to look after all the people that he gives me. I can’t lose any of them. You know, the world will finish up one day, and on that day my father wants me to make all those people alive again.