John 17:6-19

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Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶“I have revealed you^[a]^(A) to those whom you gave me^(B) out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. ⁷Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸For I gave them the words you gave me^(C) and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you,^(D) and they believed that you sent me.^(E) ⁹I pray for them.^(F) I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me,^(G) for they are yours. ¹⁰All I have is yours, and all you have is mine.^(H) And glory has come to me through them. ¹¹I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world,^(I) and I am coming to you.^(J) Holy Father, protect them by the power of^[b] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one^(K) as we are one.^(L) ¹²While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by^[c] that name you gave me. None has been lost^(M) except the one doomed to destruction^(N) so that Scripture would be fulfilled.^(O)

¹³“I am coming to you now,^(P) but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy^(Q) within them. ¹⁴I have given them your word and the world has hated them,^(R) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.^(S) ¹⁵My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.^(T) ¹⁶They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.^(U) ¹⁷Sanctify them by^[d] the truth; your word is truth.^(V) ¹⁸As you sent me into the world,^(W) I have sent them into the world.^(X) ¹⁹For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.^(Y)

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Footnotes

John 17:6 Greek your name
John 17:11 Or Father, keep them faithful to
John 17:12 Or kept them faithful to
John 17:17 Or them to live in accordance with

Acts 1:1-11

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Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven

1 In my former book,^(A) Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach^(B) ²until the day he was taken up to heaven,^(C) after giving instructions^(D) through the Holy Spirit to the apostles^(E) he had chosen.^(F) ³After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them^(G) over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.^(H) ⁴On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait^(I) for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.^(J) ⁵For John baptized with^[a] water,^(K) but in a few days you will be baptized with^[b] the Holy Spirit.”^(L)

⁶Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore^(M) the kingdom to Israel?”

⁷He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.^(N) ⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;^(O) and you will be my witnesses^(P) in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,^(Q) and to the ends of the earth.”^(R)

⁹After he said this, he was taken up^(S) before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^(T) stood beside them. ¹¹“Men of Galilee,”^(U) they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back^(V) in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

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