John 17:7

Now they have known,.... The Syriac version reads it "I have known"; and so the Persic and Gothic versions, contrary to most copies and other versions, which read, as we render, "they have known",…

They have known - They have been taught that and have believed it. Hast given me - This refers, doubtless, to the doctrine of Christ, Joh 17:8. They are assured that all my instructions are of God.

Christ, having prayed for himself, comes next to pray for those that are his, and he knew them by name, though he did not here name them. Now observe here,

I. Whom he did not pray for (Joh 17:9): I…

they have known Rather, they know: literally, -they have recognised, come to know." Comp. Joh 5:42; Joh 6:69; Joh 8:52; Joh 8:55; Joh 14:9.

whatsoever thou hast given Both His doctrine and His…