イエスの祈り

17 ひとしきり語り終えられると、イエスは天を見上げて言われました。「父よ。いよいよ時が来ました。わたしがあなたに栄光をお返しできるように、わたしの栄光を現してください。 地上のすべての人を支配する権威をわたしに下さったので、こうして、あなたから任せられた一人一人に、永遠のいのちを与えられるのです。 ただ一人のまことの神であるあなたと、あなたがこの地上にお遣わしになったわたしを知ること、それが永遠のいのちを得る道です。 わたしはあなたに言われたとおりを成し遂げ、地上であなたの栄光を現しました。 父よ。今こそあなたの前で、わたしの栄光を現してください。世界が造られる前から、ごいっしょに持っていたあの栄光で、わたしを輝かせてください。

あなたのことはすべて、この人たちに話しました。彼らはこの世にいましたが、あなたが世から選び出し、わたしに下さったのです。いつもあなたのものである彼らを、わたしに下さったのです。彼らはあなたのおことばを守りました。 いま彼らは、わたしの持っているものはみな、あなたからの贈り物であることを知っています。 わたしがあなたのおことばを伝えたからです。彼らはそれを受け入れ、確かにわたしがあなたのもとからこの地上に遣わされて来たのだと信じています。 父よ。お願いがあります。もちろん、世のためではなく、あなたがわたしに下さった者たちのためです。彼らはあなたのものなのですから。 10 彼らはみな、わたしのもの、また、あなたのものです。あなたは彼らを、他のすべてのものといっしょにわたしに下さいました。ですから、彼らはわたしの栄光なのです。 11 わたしは世を去り、あなたのもとに帰ります。彼らをあとに残して……。ああ、父よ。この人たちが一人も脱落しないように守ってください。わたしと父が一つであるように、彼らも一つとならせてください。 12 彼らがわたしといっしょにいた間は、あなたの家族として、一人一人を安全に守りました。滅びないように、いつも見守りました。ただ地獄の子だけが滅びました。聖書に言われていたことが実現するためです。 13 今わたしは、みもとにまいります。彼らの心がわたしと同じ喜びでいっぱいになるように、いっしょにいる間は、できるだけのことを話しました。 14 あなたの命令も伝えました。するとどうでしょう。世の人は彼らを憎んだのです。わたしと同じように、彼らもこの世と調子を合わせようとしないからです。 15 彼らをこの世から取り去ってくださいとはお願いしません。ただ、サタンから守ってください。 16 わたしと同じように、彼らもこの世のものではありません。 17 あなたの真理のことばによって、彼らを純粋な、きよい者としてください。 18 あなたがわたしを世にお遣わしになったように、わたしも彼らを世に遣わします。 19 また、彼らが真理を知る、きよい者として成長できるように、この身をささげます。

20 この人たちのことだけでなく、この人たちの証言を聞いて、わたしを信じるすべての人のためにも祈ります。 21 父よ。お願いです。あなたとわたしが一つであるように、彼らも一つの心、一つの思いとなりますように。あなたがわたしのうちにおられ、わたしがあなたのうちにいるのと同じように、彼らもわたしたちのうちにいさせてください。それを見て、あなたがわたしをお遣わしになったことを、世の人々が信じますように。 22 あなたが下さった栄光を、わたしは彼らに与えました。わたしと父が一つであるように、彼らにも完全な一致を保ってほしかったからです。 23 わたしが彼らのうちにおり、あなたがわたしのうちにおられて初めて、みな完全に一つになるのです。その時、世の人々は、あなたがわたしをお遣わしになったことを知り、わたしだけでなく彼らも、あなたが愛しておられることを認めざるをえなくなるのです。 24 父よ。彼らがわたしといっしょにいることができるようにしてください。彼らにわたしの栄光を見させてください。世界の造られる前からわたしを愛しておられた、あなたが下さった栄光を。 25 ああ、父よ。すべての事において正しい父よ。世はあなたを知りません。けれども、わたしはあなたを知っています。この弟子たちも、あなたがわたしをお遣わしになったことを知っています。 26 わたしが教えたのです。これからも教えます。あなたの大きな愛が彼らをつつみ、わたしも彼らのうちにいられるように。」

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) For you granted him authority over all people(D) that he might give eternal life(E) to all those you have given him.(F) Now this is eternal life: that they know you,(G) the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.(H) I have brought you glory(I) on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.(J) 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

“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. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 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) 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

  1. John 17:6 Greek your name
  2. John 17:11 Or Father, keep them faithful to
  3. John 17:12 Or kept them faithful to
  4. John 17:17 Or them to live in accordance with
  5. John 17:26 Greek your name

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:

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.