John 17

Father, Glorify Your Son

1Jesus spoke these things, lifted his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2just as you gave him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. 4I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

6“I revealed your name to the people you gave me out of the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, 8because I have given them the words you gave me. They received them and truly knew that I came from you, and they trusted that you sent me. 9I am asking for them. I am not asking for the world but for those you have given me, because they are yours. 10Everything of mine is yours, and yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that 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. 14I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they are not from the world, just as I am not from the world. 15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16They are not from the world, just as I am not from the world. 17Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth. 18Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I make myself holy, so that they also may be made holy in truth.

Jesus Prays for Those Who Will Trust

20“I am not asking for these only, but also for those who trust in me through their word, 21so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so that they too may be in us, so that the world may trust that you sent me. 22I have given them the glory you gave me so that they may be one just as we are one: 23I in them and you in me, so that they may be brought to complete unity, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them just as you loved me. 24Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25Righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these people knew that you sent me. 26I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I may be in them.”