John 17:21
I pray that they all may be one, just as you, Father, live in me, and I live in you, so that they too may live in us so that the world will believe you did send me.
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20I'm not only praying for them, I'm also praying for those who trust in me because of their message.
22I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
Cross References
Jeremiah 32:39I will make sure they think the same way and act in harmony, so that they will always honor me so all will be good for them and their descendants.
Ezekiel 37:22I will make them one nation in the country, living in the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule them all. They won't be two nations any longer; never again will they be divided into two kingdoms.
Zechariah 14:9The Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be one true Lord, and his name the only one.
John 3:17God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 10:16I have other sheep that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them too. They will listen to my voice and there will be one flock with one shepherd.
John 10:38But if that is what I'm doing, even though you don't believe me, you should believe because of the evidence of what I've done. That way you can know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
Matthew Henry on John 17:21-24
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved… Read the whole commentary →