John 17:12
ContextNETBible | When I was with them I kept them safe 1 and watched over them 2 in your name 3 that you have given me. Not one 4 of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, 5 so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 6 |
XREF | Ps 109:6-19; Lu 4:26,27; Joh 6:37,39,40; Joh 6:70,71; Joh 10:27,28; Joh 13:18; Joh 18:9; Ac 1:16-20,25; 2Th 2:3; Heb 2:13; 1Jo 2:19 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.” 2 tn Grk “and guarded them.” 3 tn Or “by your name.” 4 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. 5 tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas). 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. 6 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. |