John 17
Jesus prays aloud before his arrest. He asks the Father to glorify him, prays for his disciples to be kept and made holy in the truth, and then prays for all who will believe through their message, that they may be one so the world may believe.
Key verses
1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:SelectedJohn 17:1Ask
2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.SelectedJohn 17:2Ask
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.SelectedJohn 17:3Ask
4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.SelectedJohn 17:4Ask
5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.SelectedJohn 17:5Ask
6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.SelectedJohn 17:6Ask
7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.SelectedJohn 17:7Ask
8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.SelectedJohn 17:8Ask
9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.SelectedJohn 17:9Ask
10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.SelectedJohn 17:10Ask
11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.SelectedJohn 17:11Ask
12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.SelectedJohn 17:12Ask
13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.SelectedJohn 17:13Ask
14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.SelectedJohn 17:14Ask
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.SelectedJohn 17:15Ask
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.SelectedJohn 17:16Ask
17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.SelectedJohn 17:17Ask
18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.SelectedJohn 17:18Ask
19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.SelectedJohn 17:19Ask
20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;SelectedJohn 17:20Ask
21That 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.SelectedJohn 17:21Ask
22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:SelectedJohn 17:22Ask
23I 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 them, as thou hast loved me.SelectedJohn 17:23Ask
24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.SelectedJohn 17:24Ask
25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.SelectedJohn 17:25Ask
26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.SelectedJohn 17:26Ask
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