John 17

1 Jesus said these things, and then, lifting up his eyes toward heaven, he said: "Father, the hour has arrived: glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you,

2 just as you have given authority over all flesh to him, so that he may give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

3 And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

4 I have glorified you on earth. I have completed the work that you gave me to accomplish.

5 And now Father, glorify me within yourself, with the glory that I had with you before the world ever was.

6 I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given to me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me. And they have kept your word.

7 Now they realize that all the things that you have given me are from you.

8 For I have given them the words that you gave to me. And they have accepted these words, and they have truly understood that I went forth 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 And all that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine, and I am glorified in this.

11 And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.

12 While I was with them, I preserved them in your name. I have guarded those whom you have given to me, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

13 And now I am coming to you. But I am speaking these things in the world, so that they may have the fullness of my joy within themselves.

14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world.

15 I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.

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

17 Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.

18 Just as you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

19 And it is for them that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified in truth.

20 But I am not praying for them only, but also for those who through their word shall believe in me.

21 So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22 And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we also are one.

23 I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me.

24 Father, I will that where I am, those whom you have given to me may also be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me. For you loved me before the founding of the world.

25 Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you sent me.

26 And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them."

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John 17

Jesus’ Prayer for His Followers

1-5Jesus said these things. Then, raising his eyes in prayer, he said:

Father, it’s time.

Display the bright splendor of your Son

So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor.

You put him in charge of everything human

So he might give real and eternal life to all in his care.

And this is the real and eternal life:

That they know you,

The one and only true God,

And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

I glorified you on earth

By completing down to the last detail

What you assigned me to do.

And now, Father, glorify me with your very own splendor,

The very splendor I had in your presence

Before there was a world.

* * *

6-12I spelled out your character in detail

To the men and women you gave me.

They were yours in the first place;

Then you gave them to me,

And they have now done what you said.

They know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt,

That everything you gave me is firsthand from you,

For the message you gave me, I gave them;

And they took it, and were convinced

That I came from you.

They believed that you sent me.

I pray for them.

I’m not praying for the God-rejecting world

But for those you gave me,

For they are yours by right.

Everything mine is yours, and yours mine,

And my life is on display in them.

For I’m no longer going to be visible in the world;

They’ll continue in the world

While I return to you.

Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life

That you conferred as a gift through me,

So they can be one heart and mind

As we are one heart and mind.

As long as I was with them, I guarded them

In the pursuit of the life you gave through me;

I even posted a lookout.

And not one of them got away,

Except for the rebel bent on destruction

(the exception that proved the rule of Scripture).

* * *

13-19Now I’m returning to you.

I’m saying these things in the world’s hearing

So my people can experience

My joy completed in them.

I gave them your word;

The godless world hated them because of it,

Because they didn’t join the world’s ways,

Just as I didn’t join the world’s ways.

I’m not asking that you take them out of the world

But that you guard them from the Evil One.

They are no more defined by the world

Than I am defined by the world.

Make them holy—consecrated—with the truth;

Your word is consecrating truth.

In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world,

I give them a mission in the world.

I’m consecrating myself for their sakes

So they’ll be truth-consecrated in their mission.

* * *

20-23I’m praying not only for them

But also for those who will believe in me

Because of them and their witness about me.

The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—

Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you,

So they might be one heart and mind with us.

Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.

The same glory you gave me, I gave them,

So they’ll be as unified and together as we are—

I in them and you in me.

Then they’ll be mature in this oneness,

And give the godless world evidence

That you’ve sent me and loved them

In the same way you’ve loved me.

* * *

24-26Father, I want those you gave me

To be with me, right where I am,

So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me,

Having loved me

Long before there ever was a world.

Righteous Father, the world has never known you,

But I have known you, and these disciples know

That you sent me on this mission.

I have made your very being known to them—

Who you are and what you do—

And continue to make it known,

So that your love for me

Might be in them

Exactly as I am in them.

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