² For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.

³⁷ However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, ²⁹ for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else.^[a] No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.

³⁹ And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day.

²⁴ Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God.^[a] And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life.

⁹ “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

¹⁸ Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

¹⁴ But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”