“I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 17 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.