Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I am no more in the world--(See on John 17:4).
but these are in the world--that is, Though My struggles are at an end, theirs are not; though I have gotten beyond the scene of strife, I cannot sever Myself in spirit from them, left behind and only just entering on their great conflict.
Holy Father--an expression He nowhere else uses. "Father" is His wonted appellation, but "Holy" is here prefixed, because His appeal was to that perfection of the Father's nature, to "keep" or preserve them from being tainted by the unholy atmosphere of "the world" they were still in.
keep through thine own name--rather, "in thy name"; in the exercise of that gracious and holy character for which He was known.
that they may be one--(See on John 17:21).
I pray for them--not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on John 17:20).
not for the world--for they had been given Him "out of the world" (John 17:6), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 31:10
John 13:1
John 17:25
Romans 8:34
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