17. Jesus spoke these words. Then He lifted His eyes to heaven
and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son so that thy Son
may also glorify thee, as you have given Him power over all flesh so He
could give eternal life to as many as you have given Him. This is life
eternal, that they might 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 that you gave me to do.
And now, glorify me, Father, with you; with the glory that I had with
you before the world existed. I have manifested your name to those you
gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me. They
have kept your word. Now they know that all things you have given me
are from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me. They
have received them and they know truly that I came from you, and they
have believed that you did send me.
I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those you have
given me, because they are yours. All of mine are yours, just as yours
are mine; and I am glorified in them. Now I am in the world no more but
they are in the world. I come to thee, Holy Father. Keep, through your
own name, those you have given me, so they may be one, just as we are
one.
While I was with them in the world I kept them in your name. I have
kept those that you gave me. None of them is lost, except the son of
perdition so that the scripture would be fulfilled. Now I come to you
and speak these things in the world so they will have my joy fulfilled
in themselves.
I have given them your word. The world has hated them because they are
not of the world as I am not of the world. I do not pray that you take
them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil. They are not
of the world as I am not of the world. Perfect them through your truth.
Your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have also
sent them into the world. And, for their sakes, I sanctify myself that
they also might be perfected through the truth.
Neither do I pray for these alone. But I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their word so that they all may be one, as you,
Father, are in me, and I in you. They also may be one in us, so that
the world may believe that you have sent me. And the glory which you
gave me, I have given them, so they may be made perfect in one, as we
are one, and so the world may know that you have sent me, and love them
as you love me.
Father, I wish those you gave me may also be with me where I am. May
they behold my glory, which you have given me because you loved me
before the world began. O righteous Father, the world has not known
you. But I have known you, and the ones you have sent me have known
you. I have declared your name to them. And I declare that the love,
with which you have loved me, be in them, and I in them.
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