John 17:6

John 17:6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world:

They had not all of them clearly seen that manifestation. Jesus had to ask the question, "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?" Still, that was not the fault of the manifestation; Christ had manifested the name - that is, the character - of God unto those who had been given to him out of the world.

John 17:6. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

We might have expected that the verse would end, "and I have kept them." But their keeping God’s Word is the evidence that Christ has kept them. Whenever a soul loves the Word of God, delights in the teaching of Christ, glories in those things which the world called dogmas,- as if they were so much dog’s meat,- when you and I can feed upon these things,- when every utterance of Christ is dear and precious to us,- that is good evidence of our being called out of the world, and separated unto Christ; it is one of the marks of divine grace which Jesus works in those whom the Father has given him: "Thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy Word."