John 17 Jesus Christ's
High Priestly Prayer1
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: 2 As
thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know
thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest
me to do. 5 And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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6 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.7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever
thou hast given me are of thee. 8 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. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given
me; for they are thine. 10 And
all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 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.
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12 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.13 And
now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 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. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest
keep them from the evil. 16 They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
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18 As thou hast sent me into the world,
even so have I also sent them into the world.19 And
for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which
shall believe on me through their word; 21 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. 22 And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 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. 24 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. 25 O
righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 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.
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