John 17
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Jesus Prays for Himself and His Followers
1After Jesus said these things, he looked toward heaven and prayed, “Father, the time has come. Give glory to your Son so that the Son can give glory to you. 2You gave the Son power over all people so that he could give eternal life to all those you have given to him. 3And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent. 4I finished the work you gave me to do. I brought you glory on earth. 5And now, Father, give me glory with you. Give me the glory I had with you before the world was made.
6“You gave me some people from the world. I have shown them what you are like. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They have obeyed your teaching. 7Now they know that everything I have came from you. 8I told them the words you gave me, and they accepted them. They realized the fact that I came from you and believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them now. I am not praying for the people in the world. But I am praying for these people you gave me, because they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And my glory is seen in them.
11“Now I am coming to you. I will not stay in the world, but these followers of mine are still in the world. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name—the name you gave me. Then they will be one, just as you and I are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name—the name you gave me. I protected them. And only one of them was lost—the one who was sure to be lost. This was to show the truth of what the Scriptures said would happen.
13“I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world. I say all this so that these followers can have the true happiness that I have. I want them to be completely happy. 14I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them, because they don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.
15“I am not asking you to take them out of the world. But I am asking that you keep them safe from the Evil One. 16They don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world. 17Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth. 18I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world. 19I am making myself completely ready to serve you. I do this for them, so that they also might be fully qualified for your service.
20“I pray not only for these followers but also for those who will believe in me because of their teaching. 21Father, I pray that all who believe in me can be one. You are in me and I am in you. I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me. I gave them this glory so that they can be one, just as you and I are one. 23I will be in them, and you will be in me. So they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you loved them just as you loved me.
24“Father, I want these people you have given me to be with me in every place I am. I want them to see my glory—the glory you gave me because you loved me before the world was made. 25Father, you are the one who always does what is right. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these followers of mine know that you sent me. 26I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them.”
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John 17
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Jesus Prays for Himself
1Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, #John 12:23the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2#Dan. 7:14; Matt. 11:27; John 3:35; (Phil. 2:10; Heb. 2:8)as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many #John 6:37, 39; 17:6, 9, 24as You have given Him. 3And #(Is. 53:11); Jer. 9:23, 24this is eternal life, that they may know You, #1 Cor. 8:4; 1 Thess. 1:9the only true God, and Jesus Christ #John 3:34whom You have sent. 4#John 13:31I have glorified You on the earth. #(Dan. 9:24); John 4:34; 19:30I have finished the work #Is. 49:3; 50:5; John 14:31which You have given Me to do. 5And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory #Prov. 8:22–30; John 1:1, 2; Phil. 2:6; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3which I had with You before the world was.
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6#Ps. 22:22“I have manifested Your name to the men #John 6:37whom You have given Me out of the world. #Ezek. 18:4; Rom. 14:8They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8For I have given to them the words #John 8:28which You have given Me; and they have received them, #John 8:42; 16:27, 30and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that #Deut. 18:15, 18You sent Me.
9“I pray for them. #(1 John 5:19)I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10And all Mine are Yours, and #John 16:15Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11#(Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51); John 13:1; (Acts 1:9; Heb. 4:14; 9:24; 1 Pet. 3:22)Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, #(1 Pet. 1:5); Jude 1keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one #John 10:30as We are. 12While I was with them in the world, #Heb. 2:13I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and #(John 6:39; 18:9); 1 John 2:19none of them is lost #Matt. 27:4, 5; John 6:70; Acts 1:16–20except the son of perdition, #Ps. 41:9; 109:8; John 13:18; Acts 1:20that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14I have given them Your word; #Matt. 24:9; Luke 6:22; 21:17; John 15:19; 1 John 3:13and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, #John 8:23just as I am not of the world. 15I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but #Matt. 6:13; Gal. 1:4; 2 Thess. 3:3; (2 Tim. 4:18); 2 Pet. 2:9; 1 John 5:18that You should keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17#(Acts 15:9; Eph. 5:26; 1 Pet. 1:22)Sanctify them by Your truth. #Ps. 119:9, 142, 151Your word is truth. 18#John 4:38; 20:21As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19And #1 Cor. 1:2; 1 Thess. 4:7; (Heb. 10:10)for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21#(John 10:16; Rom. 12:5; Gal. 3:28); Eph. 4:4, 6that they all may be one, as #John 10:38; 17:11, 23You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22And the #John 14:20; 1 John 1:3glory which You gave Me I have given them, #(2 Cor. 3:18)that they may be one just as We are one: 23I in them, and You in Me; #(Col. 3:14)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#(John 12:26; 14:3; 1 Thess. 4:17)“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; #Matt. 25:34; John 17:5for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25O righteous Father! #John 15:21The world has not known You, but #John 7:29; 8:55; 10:15I have known You; and #John 3:17; 17:3, 8, 18, 21, 23these have known that You sent Me. 26#Ex. 34:5–7; John 17:6And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love #John 15:9; (Eph. 3:17–19)with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
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