John 17

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

1 # Jn 12.23; 13.32 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, 2#Dan 7.14; Jn 6.37; Heb 2.8since you have given him authority over all people,#17.2 Gk flesh to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3#Jn 3.34; 5.44; 6.29, 57And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4#Jn 4.34; 13.31; 14.31I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5#Jn 1.1; Phil 2.6So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

6 # Jn 6.37, 39 “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. 7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, 8#Jn 8.28; 16.27for 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. 9#Lk 22.32; Jn 14.16I 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. 10#Jn 16.15All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11#Jn 7.33; 10.30; 13.1; Rev 19.12And 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. 12#Jn 6.39, 70; 18.9; Heb 2.13While I was with them, I protected them in your name that#17.12 Other ancient authorities read protected in your name those whom you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,#17.12 Gk except the son of destruction so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But 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.#17.13 Or among themselves 14#Jn 8.23; 15.19I 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. 15#Mt 6.13I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.#17.15 Or from evil 16They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18#Jn 20.21As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, 21#Jn 10.38that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,#17.21 Other ancient authorities read be one in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22#Jn 14.20The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23I 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. 24#v 5; Mt 25.34; Jn 12.26Father, 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.

25 # Jn 7.29; 15.21; 16.3, 27 “Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26#v 6; Jn 15.9I 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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