Chapter 17

These things Jesus spoke; and raising his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the hour has come! Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee,

even as thou hast given him power over all flesh, in order that to all thou has given him he may give everlasting life.

Now this is everlasting life, that they may know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

I have glorified thee on earth; I have accomplished the work that thou hast given me to do.

And now do thou, Father, glorify me with thyself, with the glory that I had with thee before the world existed.

"I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. They were thine, and thou hast given them to me, and they have kept thy word.

Now they have learnt that whatever thou hast given me is from thee;

because the words that thou hast given me I have given to them. And they have received them, and have known of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

"I pray for them; not for the world do I pray, but for those whom thou hast given me, because they are thine;

and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

And I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one even as we are.

While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I guarded; and not one of them perished except the son of perdition, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But now I am coming to thee; and these things I speak in the world, in order that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I do not pray that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from evil.

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them in the truth. Thy word is truth.

Even as thou hast sent me into the world, so I also have sent them into the world.

And for them I sanctify myself, that they may also be sanctified in truth.

"Yet not for these only do I pray, but for those also who through their word are to believe in me,

that all may be one, even as thou, Father, in me and I in thee; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

And the glory that thou hast given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one:

I in them and thou in me; that they may be perfected in unity, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.

"Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me; in order that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

Just Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known, in order that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.