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Joh 17:25 King James O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee--knew thee not.

but I have known thee--knew thee.

and these have known--knew.

that thou hast sent--sentest

me--As before He said "Holy Father," when desiring the display of that perfection on His disciples (Joh 17:11), so here He styles Him "Righteous Father," because He is appealing to His righteousness or justice, to make a distinction between those two diametrically opposite classes--"the world," on the one hand, which would not "know the Father, though brought so nigh to it in the Son of His love, and, on the other, Himself, who recognized and owned Him, and even His disciples, who owned His mission from the Father.
 
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11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.