John 17:1-12

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.

Cross References

• 1. John 11:41
• 2. John 7:39; John 13:31
• 3. John 3:35
• 4. John 10:28
• 5. John 6:37, 39; John 17:6, 9, 24
• 6. John 5:44
• 7. John 3:17; John 17:8, 21, 23, 25
• 8. John 13:31
• 9. Luke 22:37; John 4:34
• 10. John 17:1
• 11. John 1:1; John 8:58; John 17:24; Philippians 2:6
• 12. John 17:26
• 13. John 6:37, 39; John 17:2, 9, 24
• 14. John 17:9
• 15. John 8:51
• 16. John 6:68; John 12:49
• 17. John 15:15; John 17:14, 26
• 18. John 8:42; John 16:27, 30
• 19. John 3:17; John 17:18, 21, 23, 25
• 20. Luke 22:32; John 14:16
• 21. Luke 23:34; John 17:20
• 22. John 6:37, 39; John 17:2, 6, 24
• 23. John 17:6
• 24. John 16:15
• 25. John 13:1
• 26. John 7:33; John 17:13
• 27. John 17:25
• 28. John 17:6; Philippians 2:9; Revelation 19:12
• 29. John 17:21; Romans 12:5; Galatians 3:28
• 30. John 17:6; Philippians 2:9; Revelation 19:12
• 31. John 6:39; John 18:9
• 32. John 6:70
• 33. Psalms 41:9; John 13:18

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "everything that You have given Him, to them He may"
• [b]. Or "by accomplishing"
• [c]. Heb idiom for one destined to perish