THE BOOK OF JOHN
John Chapter 17
1 ¶ After saying this, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the time has come; glorify your Son, so that your Son may also glorify you:
2 As you have given him power over all men, glorify him so that he may give eternal life to as many as you have given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4 I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work that you gave me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had with you before the world was.
6 ¶ I have revealed your name to the men that you gave me out of the world: they were yours, you gave them to me; and they have kept your word.
7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.
8 For I have given to them the words that you gave me; and they accepted them, and have learned the truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
9 I pray for them: I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given to me; for they are yours.
10 All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine; and I am glorified through them.
11 ¶ I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those whom you have given me safe through your name, that they may be one, as are we.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: I have kept those you gave me, and none of them is lost, except the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 But now I am coming to you; and I say these things while I am in the world, that the fullness of my joy might be in them.
14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you would protect them from evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 ¶ Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.
18 As you have sent me into the world, even so I have also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 ¶ Nor do I pray for them alone, but also for those who will believe on me through their word;
21 That all of them may be one; just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 And I have given to them the glory that you gave me; that they may be one, as we are one:
23 I am in them, and you are in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
24 ¶ Father, I also want those, whom you have given me, to be with me where I am; and to see my glory, the glory that you have given me: because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, although the world has not known you: I have known you, and they have come to know that you have sent me.
26 I have revealed you to them, and will continue to make you known: that the love you have for me may be in them, and I myself may be in them.