12 When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded them,[a] and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled. 13 And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:12 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation