Prayer
of Jesus
John
17;1-26
The
High Priestly Prayer
1
Jesus spoke
these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has
come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2 even as You
gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may
give eternal life. 3 This is eternal life, that they may know You,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I
glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given
Me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with
the glory which I had with You before the world was.
6 “I have manifested Your name
to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them
to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they have come to know
that everything You have given Me is from You; 8 for the words
which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly
understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. 9 I
ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You
have given Me; for they are Yours; 10 and all things that are Mine
are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 I
am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and
I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You
have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. 12 While
I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I
guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the
Scripture would be fulfilled.
The
Disciples in the World
13 But now I come to You; and
these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in
themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated
them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I
do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify
them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the
world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 For their sakes I
sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20 “I do not ask on behalf of
these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that
they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that
they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
Their
Future Glory
22 The glory which You have
given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I
in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world
may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24 Father,
I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that
they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the
foundation of the world.
25 “O righteous Father, although
the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that
You sent Me; 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will
make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I
in them.”