John 17

1 Jesus spoke these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you, 2 just as you gave him authority over all flesh, so that all that you have given him — to them he may give everlasting life. [a] 3 And this is everlasting life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent. 4 I glorified you on the earth, having completed the work that you have given me to do; 5 and now glorify me, Father, alongside yourself, with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.

6 I made your name visible to the people whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. [b] 7 Now they have come to know that everything you have given me is from you, 8 because the words that you gave me I have given to them, and they received them and truly knew that I came out from you, and they trusted that you sent me. 9 I ask concerning them; I do not ask concerning the world, but concerning those you have given me, because they are yours — 10 and all that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine — and I have been glorified in them.

11 And I am no longer in the world, and 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 as we are. 12 When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me, and I guarded them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. [c] 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world so that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. [d] 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth. [e] 18 Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world; 19 and for them I make myself holy, so that they also may be made holy in truth.

20 And I do not ask concerning these only, but also concerning those who trust in me through their word, 21 so that they may all be one — just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, so that they also may be in us — so that the world may trust that you sent me. † 22 And the glory that you have given me I have given to them, so that they may be one just as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, so that they may be brought to completion into one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them just as you loved me. 24 Father, as for what you have given me, I want that where I am they also may be with me, so that they may see my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 Righteous Father, the world also did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you sent me; 26 and I made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”