John 17:1-12 ▼

1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, |Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

3 |This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

4 |I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

5 |Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

6 |I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

7 |Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received [them] and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

9 |I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;

10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

11 |I am no longer in the world; and [yet] they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, [the name] which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We [are].

12 |While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.