John 17

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

₆‘I have revealed you to those whom you gave me 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 and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. ₉I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. ₁₀All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. ₁₁I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. ₁₂While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

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

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, Father, just as you 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. ₂₂I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – 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 and have loved them even as you have loved me.

₂₄‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

₂₅‘Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ₂₆I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.’