John 17
1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that your Son can glorify you,
2just as you gave him authority over all flesh so that he could give life in the age to come to all those you have given him.
3And this is life in the age to come, that they know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ.
4I glorified you on the earth by accomplishing the work that you have given me to do.
5And now, Father, glorify me together with yourself with the glory that I had with you before the world was.
6“I revealed your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you,
8for the words that you gave me I have given to them, and they received them and truly knew that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
9I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
10And all things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11And I am no longer in the world, and yet these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name, those whom you have given me, so that they can be one, just as we are.
12While 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 but the son of destruction, resulting in the Scripture being fulfilled.
13But now I am coming to you; and I am speaking these things in the world so that they have my joy made full in them.
14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15I am not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the Wicked One.
16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17Make them holy by the truth; your word is truth.
18Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
19And for their sakes I make myself holy, so that they themselves also can be made holy by the truth.
20“I am not asking for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
21so that they can all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, that they also can be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
22And the glory that you have given me, I have given to them, so that they can be one, just as we are one;
23I in union with them, and you in union with me, so that they can be perfected into one so that the world can know that you sent me, and loved them just as you loved me.
24Father, I want those whom you have given me to also be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25“O righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you sent me.
26And I made known to them your name, and will make it known so that the love with which you loved me can be in them, and I in them.”