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John

Chapter 17

1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come! Glorify your Son, so that your Son may also glorify you, 2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

3This is eternal life: that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you have sent, Jesus Christ.1234

4I have glorified you on the earth! I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do! 5Now, Father, glorify me with yourself with the glory I had with you before the world existed. 6I have revealed your Name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me; they have kept your word. 7Now they have known1235 that all things you have given me are from you. 8The words you have given me, I have given to them. They have received them and they have known for certain that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them; I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11I am no longer in the world, but these are [still] in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep1236 them through your Name which you have given me, so that they may be one, even as we are [one]. 12While I was with them in the world, I protected1237 them in your Name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, so that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 14I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I do not pray that you would take them from the world, but that you would protect1238 them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in your truth; your word is truth!1239 18As you sent me into the world, I too have sent them into the world. 19I sanctify myself for their sake, so that they too may be sanctified in truth. 20I do not pray only for these, but also for those who [will] believe in me through their word, 21so that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you. May they be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. 22The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one; 23I in them, and you in me. May they be perfected into one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and [that you have] loved them, even as you have loved me. 24Father, I desire that those whom you have given me would be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I knew you; and these have known1240 that you have sent me. 26I have made your Name known to them, and I will [continue to] make it known; so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

The Lord is arrested in the garden—Peter and his sword

  1. It is unclear whether verse 3 is attributed to Jesus or if it is intended as a comment or exclamation by the evangelist. Compare Wisdom 15:3
  2. Or “recognized/perceived/understood”
  3. Or “protect/preserve”
  4. Or “kept”
  5. Or “keep”
  6. Psalm 119:142/118 LXX
  7. Or “recognized/perceived”

Text: The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible, New Testament (EOB). Used with permission.