John 17

¹Jesus spoke these things, and having lifted up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

²as You gave to Him authority over all flesh, so that all whom You have given to Him, He may give to them eternal life.

³Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You sent.

⁴I glorified You on the earth, having completed the work that You have given to Me that I should do.

⁵And now, glorify Me—You, Father, with Yourself—with the glory that I had with You before the world existed.

⁶I revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and to Me You gave them, and they have kept Your word.

⁷Now they have known that all things, as many as You have given to Me, are from You.

⁸For the words that You gave to Me, I have given to them, and they received them, and they knew truly that I came forth from You; and they believed that You sent Me.

⁹I ask concerning them. I do not ask concerning the world, but concerning those whom You have given to Me, for they are Yours.

¹⁰And all things of Mine are Yours, and Yours Mine, and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹And I am no longer in the world, and they are themselves in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given to Me, so that they may be one as We are.

¹²When I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given to Me. And I guarded them, and none of them perished 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 fulfilled within them.

¹⁴I have given to them Your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁵I do not ask that You would take them out of the world, but that You would keep them from evil.

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

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

¹⁸As You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world;

¹⁹and for them I sanctify Myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰But I do not ask for these only, but also for those believing in Me through their word,

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

²²And I have given to them the glory that You have given to Me, so that they may be one as We are one—

²³I in them and You in Me—so that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You loved Me.

²⁴Father, those whom You have given to Me, I want that they also may be with Me where I am, so that they may behold My glory that You have given to Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵Righteous Father, although the world did not know You, yet I knew You, and these knew that You sent Me.

²⁶And I made known to them Your name and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”