17:1  Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

17:2  even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

17:3  "This constitutes eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

17:4  "I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

17:5  "Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world existed.

17:6  "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; You owned then and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

17:7  "Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me comes from You;

17:8  for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

17:9  "I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they belong to You;

17:10  and all things that belong to Me, belong to You, and Yours belong to Me; and I have received glorification in them.

17:11  "I no longer will reside in the world; and yet they themselves reside in the world, and I come to You Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may become one even as We have become one.

17:12  "While I lived 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 perdition, so that the Scripture would have fulfillment.

17:13  "But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

17:14  "I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

17:15  "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.

17:16  "They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

17:17  "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word constitutes truth.

17:18  "As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

17:19  "For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may receive sanctification in truth.

17:20  "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

17:21  that they may all become one; even as You, Father, dwell in Me and I in You, that they also may dwell in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

17:22  "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may become one, just as We have unity;

17:23  I in them and You in Me, that they may receive perfection in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

17:24  "Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, reside with Me where I reside, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

17:25  "O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

17:26  and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may dwell in them, and I in them."