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John 17:11-13
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11 I[a] am no longer in the world, but[b] they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe[c] in your name[d] that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.[e] 12 When I was with them I kept them safe[f] and watched over them[g] in your name[h] that you have given me. Not one[i] of them was lost except the one destined for destruction,[j] so that the scripture could be fulfilled.[k] 13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience[l] my joy completed[m] in themselves.

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  1. John 17:11 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.
  2. John 17:11 tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.
  3. John 17:11 tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”
  4. John 17:11 tn Or “by your name.”sn See the note on name in John 17:6.
  5. John 17:11 tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.
  6. John 17:12 tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”
  7. John 17:12 tn Grk “and guarded them.”
  8. John 17:12 tn Or “by your name.”
  9. John 17:12 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.
  10. John 17:12 tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).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.
  11. John 17:12 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.
  12. John 17:13 tn Grk “they may have.”
  13. John 17:13 tn Or “fulfilled.”
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