Jean 17

¹ These things spake Jesus ; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee :

² even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.

³ And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

⁴ I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.

⁵ And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

⁶ I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world : thine they were, and thou gavest them to me ; and they have kept thy word.

⁷ Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee :

⁸ for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them ; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

⁹ I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me ; for they are thine :

¹⁰ and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine : and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

¹² While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me : and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition ; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ But now I come to thee ; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word ; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.

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

¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth : thy word is truth.

¹⁸ As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰ Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word ;

²¹ that they may all be one ; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us : that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

²² And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them ; that they may be one, even as we are one ;

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one ; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

²⁴ Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵ O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee ; and these knew that thou didst send me ;

²⁶ and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known ; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.