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1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,
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Jesus said these things. Then, raising his eyes in prayer, he said: Father, it's time. Display the bright splendor of your Son So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor.
2 since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
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You put him in charge of everything human So he might give real and eternal life to all in his charge.
3 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
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And this is the real and eternal life: That they know you, The one and only true God, And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.
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I glorified you on earth By completing down to the last detail What you assigned me to do.
5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
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And now, Father, glorify me with your very own splendor, The very splendor I had in your presence Before there was a world.
6 "I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
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I spelled out your character in detail To the men and women you gave me. They were yours in the first place; Then you gave them to me, And they have now done what you said.
7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you;
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They know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, That everything you gave me is firsthand from you,
8 for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
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For the message you gave me, I gave them; And they took it, and were convinced That I came from you. They believed that you sent me.
9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours.
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I pray for them. I'm not praying for the God-rejecting world But for those you gave me, For they are yours by right.
10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.
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Everything mine is yours, and yours mine, And my life is on display in them.
11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
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For I'm no longer going to be visible in the world; They'll continue in the world While I return to you. Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life That you conferred as a gift through me, So they can be one heart and mind
12 While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
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As we are one heart and mind. As long as I was with them, I guarded them In the pursuit of the life you gave through me; I even posted a night watch. And not one of them got away, Except for the rebel bent on destruction (the exception that proved the rule of Scripture).
13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
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Now I'm returning to you. I'm saying these things in the world's hearing So my people can experience My joy completed in them.
14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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I gave them your word; The godless world hated them because of it, Because they didn't join the world's ways,
15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
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Just as I didn't join the world's ways. I'm not asking that you take them out of the world But that you guard them from the Evil One.
16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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They are no more defined by the world Than I am defined by the world.
17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
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Make them holy - consecrated - with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth.
18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
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In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
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I'm consecrating myself for their sakes So they'll be truth-consecrated in their mission.
20 "I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word,
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I'm praying not only for them But also for those who will believe in me Because of them and their witness about me.
21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind - Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.
22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,
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The same glory you gave me, I gave them, So they'll be as unified and together as we are -
23 I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
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I in them and you in me. Then they'll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That you've sent me and loved them In the same way you've loved me.
24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
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Father, I want those you gave me To be with me, right where I am, So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me, Having loved me Long before there ever was a world.
25 "Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me.
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Righteous Father, the world has never known you, But I have known you, and these disciples know That you sent me on this mission.
26 I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
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I have made your very being known to them - Who you are and what you do - And continue to make it known, So that your love for me Might be in them Exactly as I am in them.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.