Jesus Prays for Himself
1Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son17:1 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 may glorify you,17:1 Jn 12:28
2since you gave him authority over all people,17:2 Or flesh17:2 Php 3:3 so that he may give eternal life17:2 Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48; 1Jn 2:25 to everyone you have given him.17:2 Mt 24:22
3This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only17:3 Jn 5:44; Rm 16:27 true17:3 Jn 4:23; 1Jn 5:20 God, and the one you have sent17:3 Mk 9:37; Jn 1:6 — Jesus Christ.17:3 Jn 5:38; 6:29
4I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
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“I have revealed your name
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Jn 10:25; Ac 15:14; Rv 14:1
to the people you gave me17:6 Mt 24:22; Jn 6:37 from the world.17:6 Jn 8:23; 13:1; 15:19; 17:14–16; 18:36; 1Co 5:10; 1Jn 2:16; 4:5 They were yours, you gave them to me,17:6 Jn 18:9 and they have kept your word.17:6 Jn 8:51
7Now they know that everything you have given me is from you,
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“I pray
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Lit ask (throughout this passage)
for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me,17:9 Rm 9:11 because they are yours.
10Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine,17:10 Jn 16:15 and I am glorified in them.
11I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.17:11 Jn 13:3; 14:12 Holy17:11 Ps 20:6; 1Co 7:14 Father, protect17:11 Lit keep (throughout this passage) them by your name17:11 Pr 18:10 that you have given me, so that they may be one17:11 Jn 11:52 as we are17:11 Jn 10:16,30; 17:22; Gl 3:28 one.
12While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded17:12 2Tm 1:14 them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,17:12 The one destined for destruction, loss, or perdition so that the Scripture17:12 Mt 26:54 may be fulfilled.17:12 Ps 41:9; Jn 13:18; 15:25; 19:24,36
13Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
14I have given them your word. The world hated17:14 Lk 6:22,27; 19:14 them because they are not of the world,17:14 Jn 15:19 just as I am not of the world.17:14 Jn 8:23; 18:36
15I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.17:15 2Th 3:3
19I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
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“I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word.
21May they all be one,17:21 Jn 11:52; 17:11 as you, Father, are in me and I am in you.17:21 1Jn 2:24; 5:20 May they also be17:21 Other mss add one in us, so that the world may believe you sent me.
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“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,
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Jn 12:26
so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.
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