rwp - John:17:9

rwp@John:17:9 @{I pray} (\eg ert\). Request, not question, as in strkjv@16:23|. {Not for the world} (\ou peri tou kosmou\). Now at this point in the prayer Christ means. In verse 19| Jesus does pray for the world (for future believers) that it may believe (verse 21|). God loves the whole world (3:16|). Christ died for sinners (Romans:5:8|) and prayed for sinners (Luke:23:34|) and intercedes for sinners (1John:2:1f.; strkjv@Romans:8:34; strkjv@Hebrews:7:25|). {For those whom} (\peri hn\). A condensed and common Greek idiom for \peri toutn hous\ with \toutn\ (the demonstrative antecedent) omitted and the relative \hous\ attracted from the accusative \hous\ (object of \dedkas\) to the case (genitive) of the omitted antecedent.