John 17:6

Ἑφανέρωσὰ σου … κόσμου. John 17:4 is resumed and explained. “I have glorified Thee and finished my work by manifesting,” etc. To manifest the name here means to make God known as the holy and loving Father. This had been accomplished by Christ not in the case of all, but of those whom the Father had given Him; cf. John 6:37-44. Out of the world some were separated by the Father and allotted to Christ as His disciples. σοὶ ἦσαν, “Thine they were,” before they attached themselves to Jesus they already belonged to God in a special sense; as, e.g., Nath. i. 48. Holtzmann. καὶ τὸν λόγον σου τετηρήκασι, “and they have kept Thy word,” the revelation of God which has come to them through various channels; in contrast to those mentioned in John 5:38.