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John 17

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1Jesus spoke these things, and, lifting His eyes to heaven, said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You,

2just as You gave Him authority over all flesh, so that He may give eternal life to them—to all that You have given Him.

3And this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You sent.

4I glorified You on the earth, having completed the work that You have given Me to do.

5And now, Father, glorify Me with Yourself, with the glory that I had with You before the world existed.

6“I revealed Your name to the people whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

7Now they have known that everything You have given Me is from You,

8because the words that You gave Me I have given them; and they received them and truly knew that I came forth from You, and believed that You sent Me.

9I ask concerning them. I do not ask concerning the world, but concerning those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours;

10and all that is Mine is Yours, and what is Yours is Mine, and I have been glorified in them.

11And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are.

12When I was with them, I kept them in Your name, which You have given Me, and guarded them; and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy made full within themselves.

14I have given them Your word, and the world hated them, because they are not from the world, just as I am not from the world.

15I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

16They are not from the world, just as I am not from the world.

17Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

18Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world;

19and for their sake I sanctify Myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20“And I ask not only concerning these, but also concerning those who believe in Me through their word,

21so that they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, so that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

22And the glory that You have given Me I have given them, so that they may be one just as We are one:

23I in them and You in Me, so that they may be brought to completion into one, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them just as You loved Me.

24Father, as for what You have given Me, I desire that they too may be with Me where I am, so that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

25Righteous Father, although the world did not know You, I knew You, and these knew that You sent Me;

26and I made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

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