17:1 After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you. |
17:2 For you have given him authority over all humanity so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him. |
17:3 And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent-Jesus Christ. |
17:4 I glorified you on earth by completing the task you gave me to do. |
17:5 So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed. |
17:6 I have made your name known to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. |
17:7 Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you, |
17:8 because the words that you gave me I have given to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. And they have believed that you sent me. |
17:9 I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, for they are yours. |
17:10 All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. |
17:11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name, the name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one. |
17:12 While I was with them, I protected them by your name that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. |
17:13 "And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves. |
17:14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, for they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. |
17:15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one. |
17:16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. |
17:17 Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth. |
17:18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. |
17:19 It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth. |
17:20 "I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message, |
17:21 that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. |
17:22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one. |
17:23 I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me. |
17:24 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world. |
17:25 "Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me. |
17:26 I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them." |