John 17
1THESE words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;
2as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life.
3And this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send.
4I glorified thee on the earth; I finished the work which thou hast given me to do.
5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6I manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.
7Now they know that all things whatever thou hast given me are from thee;
8because the words which thou gayest me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew in truth that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.
9I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; because they are thine.
10And all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are,
12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I watched over and none of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them.
14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
18As thou didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth.
20And I pray not for these only, but also for those who believe on me through their word;
21that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
22And the glory which thou hast given to me I have given to them, that they may be one, as we are one;
23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them as thou lovedst me.
24Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25Righteous Father! And the world knew thee not! But I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me;
26and I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.