John 17:11

but these Rather, and these. The coupling of the sentences is solemnly simple; -And now … and these … and I."

Holy Father The expression occurs nowhere else; but comp. Rev 6:10; 1 John 2:20; and -Righteous Father," John 17:25. The epithet agrees with the prayer that God would preserve the disciples from the unholiness of the world (John 17:15) in the holiness which Christ had revealed to them and prays the Father to give them (John 17:17).

keep … given The true reading gives us, keep them in Thy name which Thou hast given Me. In any case the Greek here rendered - throughThy name," and in John 17:12 - inThy name," is the same, and should be translated in the same manner in both verses. Comp. Revelation 2:17; Revelation 19:12; Revelation 22:4. God has given His name to Christ to reveal to the disciples; and Christ prays that they may be kept true to that revelation. On the meaning of -name" see on John 1:12.

may be one They had just received a new bond of union. For long there had been oneness of belief. Now they had been made one by union with Jesus; they were one bread and one body, for they had all partaken of the one Bread (1 Corinthians 10:17).

as we are Or, even as we are(comp. John 17:2): in perfect spiritual union conforming to the essential union between the Father and the Son.