John Seventeen
Jesus spoke these things, and then he
lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, O
my Father, the hour has come; glorify your
Son, so that your Son may glorify you. Since you have given him power over all
flesh, so that to all whom you have given
him, he may give life eternal. And this is life eternal, that they might
know you, that you are the only true God,
even the one who sent Jesus Christ. I have already glorified you on the earth;
for the work which you had given to me to
do, I have finished it.
So now, O my Father, glorify me with you,
with the same glory which I had with you
before the world was made. I have made your name known to the men
whom you gave me out of the world; they
were yours and you gave them to me; and
they have kept thy word. Now they know that whatever you have
given me is from you. For the words which you gave me I gave
them; and they accepted them, and have
known truly that I came forth from you, and
they have believed that you sent me. What I request is for them; I make no request
for the world, but for those whom you
have given to me; because they are yours. And everything which is mine, is yours;
and what is yours is mine; and I am glorified
by them. Hereafter I am not in the world, but these
are in the world; and I am coming to you. O
holy Father, protect them in your name,
which you have given me, that they may be
one, even as we are. While I was with them in the world, I
protected them in your name; those you gave
me I protected, and not one of them is lost,
except the son of perdition, that the scripture
might be fulfilled. Now I am coming to you; and these things
I speak while I am in the world, that my joy
may be complete in them. I have given them your word; and the
world hated them, because they were not of
the world, just as I am not of the world. What I request is not that you should take
them out of the world, but that you should
protect them from evil. For they are not of the world, just as I am
not of the world. O Father, sanctify them in your truth,
because your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, so I
have sent them into the world. And for their sakes, I am sanctifying
myself, so that they also may be sanctified
in the truth. I am not making request for these alone,
but also for the sake of those who believe in
me through their word. So that they all may be one; just as you, my Father, art with me, and I am with you,
that they also may be one with us; so that the
world may believe you sent me. And the glory which you gave me, I gave
to them; so that they may be one just as we
are one. I with them and you with me, that they
may become perfected in one; so that the
world may know that you sent me, and that
you loved them just as you loved me. O Father, I wish that those whom you have
given me, may also be with me where I am;
so that they may see my glory which you
Jesus not of this world.
have given me; for you have loved me before
the foundation of the world. O my righteous Father, the world did not
know you, but I have known you; and these
have known that you have sent me. And I have made your name known to
them, and I am still making it known; so that
the love with which you loved me may be
among them, and I be with them.
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