Jesus Prays for His Disciples

“I have revealed your name(A) to the people you gave me(B) from the world.(C) They were yours, you gave them to me,(D) and they have kept your word.(E) Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, because I have given them the words you gave me.(F) They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you.(G) They have believed that you sent me.

“I pray[a] for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me,(H) because they are yours. 10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine,(I) and I am glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.(J) Holy(K) Father, protect[b] them by your name(L) that you have given me, so that they may be one(M) as we are(N) one. 12 While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded(O) them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,[c] so that the Scripture(P) may be fulfilled.(Q) 13 Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them. 14 I have given them your word. The world hated(R) them because they are not of the world,(S) just as I am not of the world.(T) 15 I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.(U) 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.(V) 17 Sanctify(W) them by the truth; (X) your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world,(Y) I also have sent them into the world. 19 I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:9 Lit ask (throughout this passage)
  2. 17:11 Lit keep (throughout this passage)
  3. 17:12 The one destined for destruction, loss, or perdition

(A)I have revealed Your name to the men whom (B)You gave Me out of the world; they were (C)Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have (D)followed Your word. Now they have come to know that everything which You have given Me is from You; for (E)the words which You gave Me (F)I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that (G)I came forth from You, and they believed that (H)You sent Me. (I)I ask on their behalf; (J)I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on the behalf of those whom (K)You have given Me, because (L)they are Yours; 10 and (M)all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet (N)they themselves are in the world, and (O)I am coming to You. (P)Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name (Q)which You have given Me, so that (R)they may be one just as We are. 12 While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, (S)which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and (T)not one of them perished except (U)the [a]son of destruction, so that the (V)Scripture would be fulfilled.

The Disciples in the World

13 But now (W)I am coming to You; and (X)these things I speak in the world so that they may have My (Y)joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and (Z)the world has hated them because (AA)they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I am not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from [b](AB)the evil one. 16 (AC)They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 (AD)Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18 Just as (AE)You sent Me into the world, (AF)I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I (AG)sanctify Myself, so that they themselves also may be (AH)sanctified (AI)in truth.

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:12 Heb idiom for one destined to perish
  2. John 17:15 Or evil