John 17:20

WEB

²⁰“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,

KJV

²⁰ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

BSB

²⁰I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,

FBV

²⁰I'm not only praying for them, I'm also praying for those who trust in me because of their message.

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Extra References

John 17:6-11

⁶“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. ⁷Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, ⁸for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. ⁹I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. ¹⁰All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. ¹¹I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Acts 2:41

⁴¹Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 4:4

⁴But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Romans 15:18-19

¹⁸For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;