John 17:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jesus Prays for the Disciples“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐφανέρωσά σου τὸ ὄνομα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις οὓς δέδωκάς μοι ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου: σοὶ ἦσαν, καὶ ἐμοὶ αὐτοὺς δέδωκας· καὶ τὸν λόγον σου τετήρηκασιν.

Transliteration

Ephanerōsa of you the onoma to the anthrōpois whom dedōkas to me out of the kosmou: to you they ēsan, and to me them dedōkas; and the logon of you tetērēkasin.

Grammar Details

• *Ephanerōsa*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I manifested/revealed
• *onoma*: accusative, neuter, singular - name
• *anthrōpois*: dative, masculine, plural - men/people
• *dedōkas*: perfect, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you have given
• *kosmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - world
• *ēsan*: imperfect, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they were
• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word
• *tetērēkasin*: perfect, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they have kept/observed

Word Meanings

• *Ephanerōsa*: manifested/revealed/made known
• *onoma*: name/character/reputation
• *anthrōpois*: men/people/humans
• *dedōkas*: have given/entrusted/granted
• *kosmou*: world/universe/ordered system
• *ēsan*: were/belonged to
• *logon*: word/message/saying
• *tetērēkasin*: have kept/observed/guarded

Referenced Verses

• John 17:26 : 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
• John 17:2 : 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
• John 6:37 : 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
• John 14:21-24 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.” 22 “Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the LORD by name. 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
• Ps 22:22 : 22 I will declare your name to my countrymen! In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!
• Prov 2:1-5 : 1 Benefits of Seeking Wisdom My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself, 2 by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, 3 indeed, if you call out for discernment– shout loudly for understanding– 4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
• Exod 3:13-15 : 13 Moses said to God,“If I go to the Israelites and tell them,‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,‘What is his name?’– what should I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses,“I AM that I AM.” And he said,“You must say this to the Israelites,‘I AM has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses,“You must say this to the Israelites,‘The LORD– the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob– has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.’
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
• John 17:24 : 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
• Rev 2:13 : 13 ‘I know where you live– where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.
• Rev 3:8 : 8 ‘I know your deeds.(Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.
• Exod 9:16 : 16 But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
• John 17:9-9 : 9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. 10 Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
• John 17:14 : 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
• John 17:16 : 16 They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.
• John 18:9 : 9 He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken,“I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”
• Acts 13:48 : 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.
• Rom 8:28-30 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose, 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
• Rom 11:2 : 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
• Eph 1:4-9 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will– 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight. 9 He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10 toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth. 11 In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 14 He called you to this salvation through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 1:13 : 13 Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• Heb 2:12 : 12 saying,“I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.
• Prov 2:10 : 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
• Prov 3:1-4 : 1 Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for they will provide a long and full life, and well-being for you. 3 Do not let mercy and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.
• Prov 23:23 : 23 Acquire truth and do not sell it– wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
• Matt 11:25-27 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
• Luke 10:21-22 : 21 On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
• John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
• Ps 71:17-19 : 17 O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds. 18 Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power. 19 Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; you have done great things. O God, who can compare to you?
• Ps 119:11 : 11 In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
• John 15:3 : 3 You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
• John 15:7 : 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
• John 15:19 : 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
• John 6:39 : 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.
• John 8:31-32 : 31 Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
• John 10:27-29 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.
• John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
• 1 Pet 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad(in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen