John 17
The High Priestly Prayer
When Jesus had spoken these words, ahe lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, bthe hour has come; cglorify your Son that the Son may dglorify you, 2 since ayou have given him authority over all flesh, bto give eternal life to all cwhom you have given him. 3 aAnd this is eternal life, bthat they know you, cthe only dtrue God, and eJesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I aglorified you on earth, bhaving accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, aglorify me in your own presence with the glory bthat I had with you cbefore the world existed.
6 a“I have manifested your name to the people bwhom you gave me out of the world. cYours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything athat you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them athe words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that bI came from you; and cthey have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. aI am not praying for the world but for those bwhom you have given me, for cthey are yours. 10 aAll mine are yours, and yours are mine, and bI am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but athey are in the world, and bI am coming to you. cHoly Father, dkeep them in your name, ewhich you have given me, fthat they may be one, geven as we are one. 12 aWhile I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have bguarded them, and cnot one of them has been lost except dthe son of destruction, ethat the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now aI am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have bmy joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 aI have given them your word, and bthe world has hated them cbecause they are not of the world, djust as I am not of the world. 15 I ado not ask that you btake them out of the world, but that you ckeep them from dthe evil one. 16 aThey are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 aSanctify them in the truth; byour word is truth. 18 aAs you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And afor their sake bI consecrate myself, that they also cmay be sanctified in truth.
20 “I do not aask for these only, but also for those bwho will believe in me through their word, 21 athat they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that bthey also may be in cus, so that the world dmay believe that you have sent me. 22 aThe glory that you have given me bI have given to them, cthat they may be one even as we are one, 23 aI in them and you in me, bthat they may become perfectly one, cso that the world may know that you sent me and dloved them even as eyou loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be awith me bwhere I am, cto see my glory that you have given me because you loved me dbefore the foundation of the world. 25 aO righteous Father, even though bthe world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 aI made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love bwith which you have loved me may be in them, and cI in them.”
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