John 17

1After saying these things, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has arrived. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may bring glory to you,

2just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he would give eternal life to everyone you have given to him.

3Now eternal life is this: that they know you, the only true God, and the one you sent, Jesus Christ.

4I have glorified you on earth by bringing to completion the work you gave me to do.

5So now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had at your side before the world was.

6I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

7They know now that all you have given me is from you,

8because the words you gave me I have passed on to them, and they received them. They truly understood that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

9It is for them that I ask. I do not ask for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

10Everything that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.

11I am no longer in the world, yet they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name you have given me, so that they may be one as we are.

12When I was with them, I kept them in your name, the name you have given me, and I watched over them, and none of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

13But now I am coming to you, and I am speaking these things in the world so that they may have my joy in themselves, made complete.

14I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not from the world, just as I am not from the world.

15My request is not for you to remove them from the world, but for you to keep them from the evil one.

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

17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

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

19On their behalf I sanctify myself, so that they too may be sanctified in truth.

20I am asking not for these alone but also for those who will come to believe in me through their word,

21that all of them may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you—that they too may be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

22I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one,

23I in them and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that the world may know that you sent me and that you loved them as you loved me.

24Father, it is my will that those you have given me may be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world was founded.

25Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have come to know that you sent me.

26I have made your name known to them, and I will keep making it known, so that your love for me may be in them, and I in them.”