John 16:25-17:26

English Standard Version

I Have Overcome the World

²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ^(A)The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; ^27 (B)for the Father himself loves you, because ^(C)you have loved me and ^(D)have believed that I came from God.^{[a] 28 (E)}I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ^(F)I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not ^(G)using figurative speech! ³⁰ Now we know that ^(H)you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that ^(I)you came from God.” ³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³² Behold, ^(J)the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when ^(K)you will be scattered, each to his own home, and ^(L)will leave me alone. ^(M)Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³ I have said these things to you, that ^(N)in me you may have peace. ^(O)In the world you will have ^(P)tribulation. But ^(Q)take heart; ^(R)I have overcome the world.”

The High Priestly Prayer

17 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(S)he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ^(T)the hour has come; ^(U)glorify your Son that the Son may ^(V)glorify you, ² since ^(W)you have given him authority over all flesh, ^(X)to give eternal life to all ^(Y)whom you have given him. ^3 (Z)And this is eternal life, ^(AA)that they know you, ^(AB)the only ^(AC)true God, and ^(AD)Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴ I ^(AE)glorified you on earth, ^(AF)having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, ^(AG)glorify me in your own presence with the glory ^(AH)that I had with you ^(AI)before the world existed.

^6 (AJ)“I have manifested your name to the people ^(AK)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(AL)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything ^(AM)that you have given me is from you. ⁸ For I have given them ^(AN)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(AO)I came from you; and ^(AP)they have believed that you sent me. ⁹ I am praying for them. ^(AQ)I am not praying for the world but for those ^(AR)whom you have given me, for ^(AS)they are yours. ^10 (AT)All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ^(AU)I am glorified in them. ¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but ^(AV)they are in the world, and ^(AW)I am coming to you. ^(AX)Holy Father, ^(AY)keep them in your name, ^(AZ)which you have given me, ^(BA)that they may be one, ^(BB)even as we are one. ^12 (BC)While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^(BD)guarded them, and ^(BE)not one of them has been lost except ^(BF)the son of destruction, ^(BG)that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now ^(BH)I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have ^(BI)my joy fulfilled in themselves. ^14 (BJ)I have given them your word, and ^(BK)the world has hated them ^(BL)because they are not of the world, ^(BM)just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I ^(BN)do not ask that you ^(BO)take them out of the world, but that you ^(BP)keep them from ^(BQ)the evil one.^{[b] 16 (BR)}They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ^17 (BS)Sanctify them^[c] in the truth; ^(BT)your word is truth. ^18 (BU)As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And ^(BV)for their sake ^(BW)I consecrate myself,^[d] that they also ^(BX)may be sanctified^[e] in truth.

²⁰ “I do not ^(BY)ask for these only, but also for those ^(BZ)who will believe in me through their word, ^21 (CA)that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that ^(CB)they also may be in ^(CC)us, so that the world ^(CD)may believe that you have sent me. ^22 (CE)The glory that you have given me ^(CF)I have given to them, ^(CG)that they may be one even as we are one, ^23 (CH)I in them and you in me, ^(CI)that they may become perfectly one, ^(CJ)so that the world may know that you sent me and ^(CK)loved them even as ^(CL)you loved me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^(CM)with me ^(CN)where I am, ^(CO)to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^(CP)before the foundation of the world. ^25 (CQ)O righteous Father, even though ^(CR)the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ^26 (CS)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^(CT)with which you have loved me may be in them, and ^(CU)I in them.”