John 17:20-26

Jesus Prays for the Unity of Believers

20 "And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word,

21 that they all may be one, just as you, Father, [are] in me and I [am] in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

22 And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we [are] one--

23 I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

24 "Father, [those] whom you have given to me--I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

25 Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these [men] have come to know that you sent me.

26 And I made known to them your name, and will make [it] known, in order that the love [with] which you loved me may be in them, and I [may be] in them."

Footnotes

• [a] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation