“Neither pray I for these alone...”
John 17.20
In John chapter 17 we see the Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ which He prayed just moments before He was betrayed and taken to be crucified.
He was specifically praying for His disciples, that first church, but in the prayer we see our Lord often praying for us when He said such things as, “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;”.