John 17

CHAPTER 17

The High Priestly Prayer

¹Jesus spoke these things; and ^alifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; ^bglorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

²even as ^aYou gave Him authority over all flesh, that ^bto ¹all whom You have given Him, ^cHe may give eternal life.

³“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, ^athe only true God, and Jesus Christ whom ^bYou have sent.

⁴“^aI glorified You on the earth, ^1bhaving finished the work which You have given Me to do.

⁵“Now, Father, ^aglorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had ^bwith You before the world was.

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶“^aI have manifested Your name to the men whom ^bYou gave Me out of the world; they were ^cYours and You gave them to Me, and they have ^dkept Your word.

⁷“Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

⁸for ^athe words which You gave Me ^bI have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that ^cI came forth from You, and they believed that ^dYou sent Me.

⁹“^aI ask on their behalf; ^bI do not ask on behalf of the world but of those whom ^cYou have given Me; for ^dthey are Yours;

¹⁰and ^aall things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹“And I am no longer in the world; and yet ^athey themselves are in the world, and ^bI come to You. ^cHoly Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^dwhich You have given Me, that ^ethey may be one even as We are.

¹²“While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name ^awhich You have given Me; and I guarded them and ^bnot one of them perished but ^cthe ¹son of perdition, so that the ^dScripture would be fulfilled.

¹³“But now ^aI come to You; and ^bthese things I speak in the world so that they may have My ^cjoy made full in themselves.

¹⁴“I have given them Your word; and ^athe world has hated them, because ^bthey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁵“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them ¹from ^2athe evil one.

¹⁶“^aThey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁷“^aSanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

¹⁸“As ^aYou sent Me into the world, ^bI also sent them into the world.

¹⁹“For their sake I ^asanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be ^bsanctified ^cin 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; ^aeven as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, ^bso that the world may ¹believe that ^cYou sent Me.

²²“The ^aglory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

^23aI in them and You in Me, that they may be ¹perfected ²in unity, so that the world may ³know that ^bYou sent Me, and ^cloved them, even as You have loved Me.

²⁴“Father, I desire that ^athey also, whom You have given Me, ^bbe with Me where I am, so that they may see My ^cglory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before ^dthe foundation of the world.

²⁵“O ^arighteous Father, ¹although ^bthe world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that ^cYou sent Me;

²⁶and ^aI have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that ^bthe love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”