John 17

Jesus Prays to Be Glorified

17After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven^h and prayed:

“Father, the hour has come.ⁱ Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.^{j 2}For you granted him authority over all people^k that he might give eternal life^l to all those you have given him.^{m 3}Now this is eternal life: that they know you,ⁿ the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.^{o 4}I have brought you glory^p on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.^{q 5}And now, Father, glorify me^r in your presence with the glory I had with you^s before the world began.^t

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶“I have revealed you^au to those whom you gave me^v out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. ⁷Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸For I gave them the words you gave me^w and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you,^x and they believed that you sent me.^{y 9}I pray for them.^z I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me,^a for they are yours. ¹⁰All I have is yours, and all you have is mine.^b And glory has come to me through them. ¹¹I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world,^c and I am coming to you.^d Holy Father, protect them by the power of^b your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one^e as we are one.^{f 12}While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by^c that name you gave me. None has been lost^g except the one doomed to destruction^h so that Scripture would be fulfilled.ⁱ

¹³“I am coming to you now,^j but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy^k within them. ¹⁴I have given them your word and the world has hated them,^l for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.^{m 15}My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.^{n 16}They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.^{o 17}Sanctify them by^d the truth; your word is truth.^{p 18}As you sent me into the world,^q I have sent them into the world.^{r 19}For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.^s

Jesus Prays for All Believers

²⁰“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹that all of them may be one,^t Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.^u May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.^{v 22}I have given them the glory that you gave me,^w that they may be one as we are one^x—²³I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me^y and have loved them^z even as you have loved me.

²⁴“Father, I want those you have given me^a to be with me where I am,^b and to see my glory,^c the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.^d

²⁵“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you,^e I know you, and they know that you have sent me.^{f 26}I have made you^e known to them,^g and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them^h and that I myself may be in them.”