John - Chapter 17

Passage

These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you. As you have given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him. Now this is eternal life: That they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have glorified you on the earth; I have finished the work which you gave me to do. And now glorify me, O Father, with yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world was. I have made your name known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. Yours they were: and to me you gave them. And they have kept your word. Now they have known that all things which you have given me are from you: Because the words which you gave me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have truly known that I came out from you: and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me: because they are yours. And all my things are yours, and yours are mine: and I am glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you have given me, so that they may be one, as we also are. While I was with them, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me I have kept: and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, so that the scripture may be fulfilled. And now I am coming to you: and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from evil. They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for them I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. And not for them only do I pray, but for those also who through their word shall believe in me: That they all may be one, as you, Father, in me, and I in you; that they also may be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me. And the glory which you have given me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, as we also are one: I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them, as you have also loved me. Father, I will that where I am, those also whom you have given me may be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given me, because you loved me before the creation of the world. Just Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you. And these have known that you have sent me. And I have made known your name to them and will make it known: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.