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

  • Verse 3Eternal life is knowing God and Jesus Christ.
  • Verse 17God's word is truth, and it makes people holy.
  • Verse 21Jesus prays that his followers will be one.

These 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

As 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

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.SelectedJohn 17:3Ask

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.SelectedJohn 17:4Ask

And 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

I 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

Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.SelectedJohn 17:7Ask

For 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

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.SelectedJohn 17:9Ask

And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.SelectedJohn 17:10Ask

And 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

While 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

And 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

I 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

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.SelectedJohn 17:15Ask

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.SelectedJohn 17:16Ask

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.SelectedJohn 17:17Ask

As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.SelectedJohn 17:18Ask

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.SelectedJohn 17:19Ask

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;SelectedJohn 17:20Ask

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.SelectedJohn 17:21Ask

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:SelectedJohn 17:22Ask

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 them, as thou hast loved me.SelectedJohn 17:23Ask

Father, 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

O 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

And 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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