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Jesus prays for himself

17 After Jesus said this, he looked up to heaven. He said, ‘Father, the time has now arrived. Show everyone how great your Son is. So then I, the Son, can show how great you are. ² You gave me authority over all people. You did this so that I could give people life for ever. Those are the people that you gave to me. ³ What does it mean for people to live with you for ever? It means that they know you, the one who is the only true God. They also know me, Jesus Christ, the one that you have sent. ⁴ I have shown people here on the earth how great you are. In that way, I have finished the work that you gave to me to do. ⁵ So, Father, now that I return to you, show people how great I am. Before the world began, I had great glory with you. Show again that I am great like that.’

Jesus prays for his disciples

⁶ ‘You gave some people to me who were from this world. ^{[ a ]} I have shown them who you are. They were yours and you gave them to me. They have obeyed your message. ⁷ Everything that I have comes from you. Now they know that you gave me everything. ⁸ I gave to them the message that you gave to me. They accepted that message. They know certainly that I came from you. They believe that you sent me.

⁹ I pray for them. I am not praying for the people who belong to this world. No, I am praying for those people that you have given to me. I am praying for them because they are yours. ¹⁰ Everything that I have is yours. And everything that you have is mine. These people have shown how great I am. ¹¹ I will not remain in the world any longer. I will return to you now. But they will still be here in the world. Holy Father, please keep them safe in your name. That is the powerful name that you gave to me. Then they can be united in the same way that you and I are united. ¹² While I was with them, I kept them safe in the power of your name. That is the name that you gave to me. I kept them safe so that only one of them turned away from you. That was the man who had to become lost. The Bible already said that it would happen in that way. ^{[ b ]}

¹³ Now, Father, I will come to you. I am saying these things while I am still in the world. Then these people, my disciples, can be completely happy. I want them to be completely happy in the same way that I am happy. ¹⁴ I have given your message to them. The world's people have hated them because they do not belong to the world. They do not belong to the world, in the same way that I do not belong to the world. ¹⁵ I am not asking that you will take them out of the world. But I ask you to keep them safe from the Devil. ¹⁶ They do not belong to the world, in the same way that I do not belong to the world. ¹⁷ Help them to belong completely to you, as they follow the truth. Your message is the truth. ¹⁸ I have sent them into the world, in the same way that you sent me into the world. ¹⁹ On their behalf I give myself to you, so that I belong completely to you. Then they also can completely belong to you, as they follow the truth.’

Jesus prays for everyone who will believe in him

²⁰ ‘I do not pray only for these people, my disciples. I pray also for those people who will believe in me because of my disciples' message. ²¹ I pray that all of them will become united. You, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also will be united in us. Then the world's people will believe that you sent me. ²² I have given to them the same honour that you gave to me. Now they can be united in the same way that you and I are united. ²³ I will be in them, and you will be in me, so that they can be completely united. As a result, the world's people will know that you sent me. They will also know that you love my own people as you love me.

²⁴ Father, you have given these people to me. I want them to be with me where I am. Then they will see how great I am. You made me great because you loved me. You loved me even before the world began. ²⁵ Father, you always do what is right. The world's people do not know you, but I know you. These disciples know that you have sent me. ²⁶ I have shown them what you are like. And I will continue to show them what you are like. Then they will love other people, in the same way that you love me. And I myself will be in them.’

Footnotes

17:6 In this chapter, when John speaks about ‘this world’, he means the people in the world who do not accept God as their King.
17:12 See Psalms 41:9 ; 109:2-9 .

Jesus Prays for Himself and His Followers

17 After Jesus said these things, he looked toward heaven and prayed, “Father, the time has come. Give glory to your Son so that the Son can give glory to you. ² You gave the Son power over all people so that he could give eternal life to all those you have given to him. ³ And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent. ⁴ I finished the work you gave me to do. I brought you glory on earth. ⁵ And now, Father, give me glory with you. Give me the glory I had with you before the world was made.

⁶ “You gave me some people from the world. I have shown them what you are like. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They have obeyed your teaching. ⁷ Now they know that everything I have came from you. ⁸ I told them the words you gave me, and they accepted them. They realized the fact that I came from you and believed that you sent me. ⁹ I pray for them now. I am not praying for the people in the world. But I am praying for these people you gave me, because they are yours. ¹⁰ All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And my glory is seen in them.

¹¹ “Now I am coming to you. I will not stay in the world, but these followers of mine are still in the world. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name—the name you gave me. Then they will be one, just as you and I are one. ¹² While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name—the name you gave me. I protected them. And only one of them was lost—the one who was sure to be lost. This was to show the truth of what the Scriptures said would happen.

¹³ “I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world. I say all this so that these followers can have the true happiness that I have. I want them to be completely happy. ¹⁴ I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them, because they don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.

¹⁵ “I am not asking you to take them out of the world. But I am asking that you keep them safe from the Evil One. ¹⁶ They don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world. ¹⁷ Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth. ¹⁸ I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world. ¹⁹ I am making myself completely ready to serve you. I do this for them, so that they also might be fully qualified for your service.

²⁰ “I pray not only for these followers but also for those who will believe in me because of their teaching. ²¹ Father, I pray that all who believe in me can be one. You are in me and I am in you. I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me. I gave them this glory so that they can be one, just as you and I are one. ²³ I will be in them, and you will be in me. So they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you loved them just as you loved me.

²⁴ “Father, I want these people you have given me to be with me in every place I am. I want them to see my glory—the glory you gave me because you loved me before the world was made. ²⁵ Father, you are the one who always does what is right. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these followers of mine know that you sent me. ²⁶ I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them.”

17 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

² As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

³ And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

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

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

⁷ Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

⁸ For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

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

¹⁰ And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world hath 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 out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

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

¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

²⁰ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

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

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

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

²⁴ Father, I will 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 hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

²⁶ And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Jesus Prays to Be Glorified

17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven ^{( A )} and prayed:

“Father, the hour has come. ^{( B )} Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. ^{( C )} ² For you granted him authority over all people ^{( D )} that he might give eternal life ^{( E )} to all those you have given him. ^{( F )} ³ Now this is eternal life: that they know you, ^{( G )} the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. ^{( H )} ⁴ I have brought you glory ^{( I )} on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. ^{( J )} ⁵ And now, Father, glorify me ^{( K )} in your presence with the glory I had with you ^{( L )} before the world began. ^{( M )}

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶ “I have revealed you ^{[ a ]} ^{( N )} to those whom you gave me ^{( O )} out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸ For I gave them the words you gave me ^{( P )} and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, ^{( Q )} and they believed that you sent me. ^{( R )} ⁹ I pray for them. ^{( S )} I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, ^{( T )} for they are yours. ¹⁰ All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. ^{( U )} And glory has come to me through them. ¹¹ I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, ^{( V )} and I am coming to you. ^{( W )} Holy Father, protect them by the power of ^{[ b ]} your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one ^{( X )} as we are one. ^{( Y )} ¹² While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by ^{[ c ]} that name you gave me. None has been lost ^{( Z )} except the one doomed to destruction ^{( AA )} so that Scripture would be fulfilled. ^{( AB )}

¹³ “I am coming to you now, ^{( AC )} but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy ^{( AD )} within them. ¹⁴ I have given them your word and the world has hated them, ^{( AE )} for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. ^{( AF )} ¹⁵ My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ^{( AG )} ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. ^{( AH )} ¹⁷ Sanctify them by ^{[ d ]} the truth; your word is truth. ^{( AI )} ¹⁸ As you sent me into the world, ^{( AJ )} I have sent them into the world. ^{( AK )} ¹⁹ For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. ^{( AL )}

Jesus Prays for All Believers

²⁰ “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, ^{( AM )} Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. ^{( AN )} May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ^{( AO )} ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, ^{( AP )} that they may be one as we are one ^{( AQ )} — ²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me ^{( AR )} and have loved them ^{( AS )} even as you have loved me.

²⁴ “Father, I want those you have given me ^{( AT )} to be with me where I am, ^{( AU )} and to see my glory, ^{( AV )} the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. ^{( AW )}

²⁵ “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, ^{( AX )} I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ^{( AY )} ²⁶ I have made you ^{[ e ]} known to them, ^{( AZ )} and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them ^{( BA )} and that I myself may be in them.”

Footnotes

John 17:6 Greek your name
John 17:11 Or Father, keep them faithful to
John 17:12 Or kept them faithful to
John 17:17 Or them to live in accordance with
John 17:26 Greek your name

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Jesus prays for himself

Jesus prays for his disciples

Jesus prays for everyone who will believe in him

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Jesus Prays for Himself and His Followers

The High Priestly Prayer

The Disciples in the World

Disciples’ Future Glory

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Jesus Prays to Be Glorified

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

Jesus Prays for All Believers

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