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I pray (egō erōtō). Request, not question, as in Joh 16:23.
Not for the world (ou peri tou kosmou). Now at this point in the prayer Christ means. In Joh 17:19 Jesus does pray for the world (for future believers) that it may believe (Joh 17:21). God loves the whole world (Joh 3:16). Christ died for sinners (Rom 5:8) and prayed for sinners (Luk 23:34) and intercedes for sinners (1Jo 2:1.; Rom 8:34; Heb 7:25).
For those whom (peri hōn). A condensed and common Greek idiom for peri toutōn hous with toutōn (the demonstrative antecedent) omitted and the relative hous attracted from the accusative hous (object of dedōkas) to the case (genitive) of the omitted antecedent.