{I pray} (eg(9320)er(9374)(935c)). Request, not question, as in
 16:23 . {Not for the world} (ou peri tou kosmou). Now at this
point in the prayer Christ means. In verse  19  Jesus does pray
for the world (for future believers) that it may believe (verse
 21 ). God loves the whole world ( 3:16 ). Christ died for
sinners ( Ro 5:8 ) and prayed for sinners ( Lu 23:34 ) and
intercedes for sinners ( 1Jo 2:1f.  Ro 8:34  Heb 7:25 ). {For
those whom} (peri h(936e)). A condensed and common Greek idiom for
peri tout(936e) hous with 	out(936e) (the demonstrative antecedent)
omitted and the relative hous attracted from the accusative
hous (object of ded(936b)as) to the case (genitive) of the
omitted antecedent.