John 17

¹Jesus said these things , then lifting up his eyes to heaven , he said , “ Father , the time has come . Glorify your Son , that your Son may also glorify you ;

²even as you gave him authority over all flesh , so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him .

³This is eternal life , that they should know you , the only true God , and him whom you sent , Jesus Christ .

⁴I glorified you on the earth . I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do .

⁵Now , Father , glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed .

⁶“ I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world . They were yours , and you have given them to me . They have kept your word .

⁷Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you ,

⁸for the words which you have given me I have given to them ; and they received them , and knew for sure that I came from you . They have believed that you sent me .

⁹I pray for them . I don’ t pray for the world , but for those whom you have given me , for they are yours .

¹⁰All things that are mine are yours , and yours are mine , and I am glorified in them .

¹¹I am no more in the world , but these are in the world , and I am coming to you . Holy Father , keep them through your name which you have given me , that they may be one , even as we are .

¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name . I have kept those whom you have given me . None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled .

¹³But now I come to you , and I say these things in the world , that they may have my joy made full in themselves .

¹⁴I have given them your word . The world hated them because they are not of the world , even as I am not of the world .

¹⁵I pray not that you would take them from the world , but that you would keep them from the evil one .

¹⁶They are not of the world , even as I am not of the world .

¹⁷Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.[#Psalms 119:142]

¹⁸As you sent me into the world , even so I have sent them into the world .

¹⁹For their sakes I sanctify myself , that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰“ Not for these only do I pray , but for those also who will believe in me through their word ,

²¹that they may all be one ; even as you , Father , are in me , and I in you , that they also may be one in us ; that the world may believe that you sent me .

²²The glory which you have given me , I have given to them , that they may be one , even as we are one ,

²³I in them , and you in me , that they may be perfected into one , that the world may know that you sent me and loved them , even as you loved me .

²⁴Father , I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am , that they may see my glory which you have given me , for you loved me before the foundation of the world .

²⁵Righteous Father , the world hasn’ t known you , but I knew you ; and these knew that you sent me .

²⁶I made known to them your name , and will make it known ; that the love with which you loved me may be in them , and I in them .”