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28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand.(A) 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,[a] and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:29 The textual evidence for the first clause is very divided; it may also be translated: “As for the Father, what he has given me is greater than all,” or “My Father is greater than all, in what he has given me.”

12 When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.(A)

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[a](A)This was to fulfill what he had said, “I have not lost any of those you gave me.”

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  1. 18:9 The citation may refer to Jn 6:39; 10:28; or 17:12.