John 17:11-21

11I will not remain in the world any longer. I will return to you now. But they will still be here in the world. Holy Father, please keep them safe in your name. That is the powerful name that you gave to me. Then they can be united in the same way that you and I are united.

12While I was with them, I kept them safe in the power of your name. That is the name that you gave to me. I kept them safe so that only one of them turned away from you. That was the man who had to become lost. The Bible already said that it would happen in that way.

13Now, Father, I will come to you. I am saying these things while I am still in the world. Then these people, my disciples, can be completely happy. I want them to be completely happy in the same way that I am happy.

14I have given your message to them. The world's people have hated them because they do not belong to the world. They do not belong to the world, in the same way that I do not belong to the world.

15I am not asking that you will take them out of the world. But I ask you to keep them safe from the Devil.

16They do not belong to the world, in the same way that I do not belong to the world.

17Help them to belong completely to you, as they follow the truth. Your message is the truth.

18I have sent them into the world, in the same way that you sent me into the world.

19On their behalf I give myself to you, so that I belong completely to you. Then they also can completely belong to you, as they follow the truth.’

20‘I do not pray only for these people, my disciples. I pray also for those people who will believe in me because of my disciples' message.

21I pray that all of them will become united. You, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also will be united in us. Then the world's people will believe that you sent me.