Yohanes 17:11-12

17:11 I ¹  am no longer in the world, but ²  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ³  in your name ⁴  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ⁵  17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe ⁶  and watched over them ⁷  in your name ⁸  that you have given me. Not one ⁹  of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, ¹⁰  so that the scripture could be fulfilled. ¹¹ 

[17:11]  ¹ 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.

[17:11]  ² tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

[17:11]  ³ tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

[17:11]  ⁴ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:11]  ⁵ tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.

[17:12]  ⁶ tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”

[17:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “and guarded them.”

[17:12]  ⁸ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:12]  ⁹ 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.

[17:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).

[17:12]  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.

[17:12]  ¹¹ 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.