John 17:20-26

Living Bible

²⁰ “I am not praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me because of the testimony of these. ²¹ My prayer for all of them is that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father—that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.

²² “I have given them the glory you gave me—the glorious unity of being one, as we are— ²³ I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one—so that the world will know you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me. ²⁴ Father, I want them with me—these you’ve given me—so that they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me before the world began!

²⁵ “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. ²⁶ And I have revealed you to them and will keep on revealing you so that the mighty love you have for me may be in them, and I in them.”