John 17:1–25

JESUS PRAYS FOR HIMSELF

17Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son^u may glorify you,^{v 2}since you gave him authority over all people,^Cw so that he may give eternal life^x to everyone you have given him.^{y 3}This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only^z true^aa God, and the one you have sent^ab—Jesus Christ.^{ac 4}I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do. ⁵Now, Father,^ad glorify me in your presence with that glory^ae I had with you before the world existed.^af

JESUS PRAYS FOR HIS DISCIPLES

⁶“I have revealed your name^ag to the people you gave me^ah from the world.^ai They were yours, you gave them to me,^aj and they have kept your word.^{ak 7}Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, ⁸because I have given them the words you gave me.^al They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you.^am They have believed that you sent me.

⁹“I pray^D for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me,^an because they are yours. ¹⁰Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine,^ao and I am glorified in them. ¹¹I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.^ap Holy^aq Father, protect^E them by your name^ar that you have given me, so that they may be one^as as we are^at one. ¹²While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded^au them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,^A so that the Scripture^av may be fulfilled.^{aw 13}Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them. ¹⁴I have given them your word. The world hated^ax them because they are not of the world,^ay just as I am not of the world.^{az 15}I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.^{ba 16}They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.^{bb 17}Sanctify^bc them by the truth;^bd your word is truth. ¹⁸As you sent me into the world,^be I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

JESUS PRAYS FOR ALL BELIEVERS

²⁰“I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. ²¹May they all be one,^a as you, Father, are in me and I am in you.^b May they also be^B in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. ²²I have given them the glory^c you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. ²³I am in them and you are in me,^d so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved^e them as you have loved me.^f

²⁴“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,^g so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation. ²⁵Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you,^h and they have known that you sent me.