John 17:1-21

The High Priestly Prayer

1 Jesus 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,

2 even as ³You gave Him authority over all flesh, that ⁴to all whom You have given Him, ⁵He may give eternal life.

3 "This is eternal life, that they may know You, ⁶the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom ⁷You have sent.

4 "⁸I glorified You on the earth, ⁹having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

5 "Now, Father, ¹⁰glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had ¹¹with You before the world was.

6 "¹²I have manifested Your name to the men whom ¹³You gave Me out of the world; they were ¹⁴Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have ¹⁵kept Your word.

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

8 for ¹⁶the words which You gave Me ¹⁷I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that ¹⁸I came forth from You, and they believed that ¹⁹You sent Me.

9 "²⁰I ask on their behalf; ²¹I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom ²²You have given Me; for ²³they are Yours;

10 and ²⁴all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

11 "I am no longer in the world; and yet ²⁵they themselves are in the world, and ²⁶I come to You. ²⁷Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name ²⁸which You have given Me, that ²⁹they may be one even as We are.

12 "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name ³⁰which You have given Me; and I guarded them and ³¹not one of them perished but ³²the son of perdition, so that the ³³Scripture would be fulfilled.

The Disciples in the World

13 "But now ³⁴I come to You; and ³⁵these things I speak in the world so that they may have My ³⁶joy made full in themselves.

14 "I have given them Your word; and ³⁷the world has hated them, because ³⁸they 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 from ³⁹the evil one.

16 "⁴⁰They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 "⁴¹Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

18 "As ⁴²You sent Me into the world, ⁴³I also have sent them into the world.

19 "For their sakes I ⁴⁴sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be ⁴⁵sanctified ⁴⁶in truth.

20 "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

21 that they may all be one; ⁴⁷even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, ⁴⁸so that the world may believe that ⁴⁹You sent Me.

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