I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Ver. 9. I pray for them] Christ hath left us this prayer here recorded, as a pattern of that intercession he incessantly maketh for us at the right hand of his heavenly Father. Joab was heard for Absalom: shall not Christ for us? Solomon denied his mother's request, 1 Kings 2:22; God will not deny Christ's. The prodigal came without a mediator to his father, and was embraced; much more shall we, presented by Christ.