John 17 (English Standard Version)

John 17

The High Priestly Prayer

 ¹When Jesus had spoken these words,^(A) he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father,^(B) the hour has come;^(C) glorify your Son that the Son may^(D) glorify you, ²since^(E) you have given him authority over all flesh,^(F) to give eternal life to all^(G) whom you have given him. ^3(H) And this is eternal life,^(I) that they know you^(J) the only^(K) true God, and^(L) Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴I^(M) glorified you on earth,^(N) having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵And now, Father,^(O) glorify me in your own presence with the glory^(P) that I had with you^(Q) before the world existed.

 ^6(R) "I have manifested your name to the people^(S) whom you gave me out of the world.^(T) Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything^(U) that you have given me is from you. ⁸For I have given them^(V) the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that^(W) I came from you; and^(X) they have believed that you sent me. ⁹I am praying for them.^(Y) I am not praying for the world but for those^(Z) whom you have given me, for^(AA) they are yours. ^10(AB) All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and^(AC) I am glorified in them. ¹¹And I am no longer in the world, but^(AD) they are in the world, and^(AE) I am coming to you.^(AF) Holy Father,^(AG) keep them in your name,^(AH) which you have given me,^(AI) that they may be one,^(AJ) even as we are one. ^12(AK) While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have^(AL) guarded them, and^(AM) not one of them has been lost except^(AN) the son of destruction,^(AO) that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³But now^(AP) I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have^(AQ) my joy fulfilled in themselves. ^14(AR) I have given them your word, and^(AS) the world has hated them^(AT) because they are not of the world,^(AU) just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I^(AV) do not ask that you^(AW) take them out of the world, but that you^(AX) keep them from^(AY) the evil one.^{[a] 16(AZ)} They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ^17(BA) Sanctify them^[b] in the truth;^(BB) your word is truth. ^18(BC) As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹And^(BD) for their sake^(BE) I consecrate myself,^[c] that they also^(BF) may be sanctified^[d] in truth.

 ²⁰"I do not^(BG) ask for these only, but also for those^(BH) who will believe in me through their word, ^21(BI) that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that^(BJ) they also may be in^(BK) us, so that the world^(BL) may believe that you have sent me. ^22(BM) The glory that you have given me^(BN) I have given to them,^(BO) that they may be one even as we are one, ^23(BP) I in them and you in me,^(BQ) that they may become perfectly one,^(BR) so that the world may know that you sent me and^(BS) loved them even as^(BT) you loved me. ²⁴Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be^(BU) with me^(BV) where I am,^(BW) to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me^(BX) before the foundation of the world. ^25(BY) O righteous Father, even though^(BZ) the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ^26(CA) I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love^(CB) with which you have loved me may be in them, and^(CC) I in them."