John 17

The High Priestly Prayer

1Jesus spoke these things; and 1lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; 2glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2even as 3You gave Him authority over all flesh, that 4to 5all whom You have given Him, 6He may give eternal life. 3This is eternal life, that they may know You, 7the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom 8You have sent. 49I glorified You on the earth, 1011having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 5Now, Father, 12glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had 13with You before the world was.

6“14I have manifested Your name to the men whom 15You gave Me out of the world; they were 16Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have 17kept Your word. 7Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; 8for 18the words which You gave Me 19I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that 20I came forth from You, and they believed that 21You sent Me. 922I ask on their behalf; 23I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom 24You have given Me; for 25they are Yours; 10and 26all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11I am no longer in the world; and yet 27they themselves are in the world, and 28I come to You. 29Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name 30which You have given Me, that 31they may be one even as We are. 12While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name 32which You have given Me; and I guarded them and 33not one of them perished but 34the 35son of perdition, so that the 36Scripture would be fulfilled.

The Disciples in the World

13But now 37I come to You; and 38these things I speak in the world so that they may have My 39joy made full in themselves. 14I have given them Your word; and 40the world has hated them, because 41they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them 42from 4344the evil one. 1645They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 1746Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18As 47You sent Me into the world, 48I also have sent them into the world. 19For their sakes I 49sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be 50sanctified 51in truth.

20“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21that they may all be one; 52even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, 53so that the world may 54believe that 55You sent Me.

Their Future Glory

22The 56glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 2357I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected 58in unity, so that the world may 59know that 60You sent Me, and 61loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24Father, I desire that 62they also, whom You have given Me, 63be with Me where I am, so that they may see My 64glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before 65the foundation of the world.

25“O 66righteous Father, 67although 68the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that 69You sent Me; 26and 70I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that 71the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”