1 Jesus Prays for Himself Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, John 12:23 the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,
2 Dan. 7:14; Matt. 11:27; John 3:35; (Phil. 2:10; Heb. 2:8) as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many John 6:37, 39; 17:6, 9, 24 as You have given Him.
3 And (Is. 53:11); Jer. 9:23, 24 this is eternal life, that they may know You, 1 Cor. 8:4;1 Thess. 1:9 the only true God, and Jesus Christ John 3:34 whom You have sent.
4 John 13:31 I have glorified You on the earth. (Dan. 9:24); John 4:34; 19:30 I have finished the work Is. 49:3; 50:5; John 14:31 which You have given Me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory Prov. 8:22–30; John 1:1, 2; Phil. 2:6; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3 which I had with You before the world was.
6 Jesus Prays for His Disciples Ps. 22:22 “I have manifested Your name to the men John 6:37 whom You have given Me out of the world. Ezek. 18:4; Rom. 14:8 They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.
8 For I have given to them the words John 8:28 which You have given Me; and they have received them, John 8:42; 16:27, 30 and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that Deut. 18:15, 18 You sent Me.
9 “I pray for them. (1 John 5:19) I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
10 And all Mine are Yours, and John 16:15 Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51); John 13:1; (Acts 1:9; Heb. 4:14; 9:24;1 Pet. 3:22) Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, (1 Pet. 1:5); Jude 1 keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one John 10:30 as We are.
12 While I was with them in the world, Heb. 2:13 I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and (John 6:39; 18:9); 1 John 2:19 none of them is lost Matt. 27:4, 5; John 6:70; Acts 1:16–20 except the son of perdition, Ps. 41:9; 109:8; John 13:18; Acts 1:20 that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; Matt. 24:9; Luke 6:22; 21:17; John 15:19;1 John 3:13 and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, John 8:23 just as I am not of the world.
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but Matt. 6:13; Gal. 1:4;2 Thess. 3:3; (2 Tim. 4:18); 2 Pet. 2:9;1 John 5:18 that You should keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 (Acts 15:9; Eph. 5:26;1 Pet. 1:22) Sanctify them by Your truth. Ps. 119:9, 142, 151 Your word is truth.
18 John 4:38; 20:21 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 And 1 Cor. 1:2;1 Thess. 4:7; (Heb. 10:10) for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
20 Jesus Prays for All Believers “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;
21 (John 10:16; Rom. 12:5; Gal. 3:28); Eph. 4:4, 6 that they all may be one, as John 10:38; 17:11, 23 You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22 And the John 14:20;1 John 1:3 glory which You gave Me I have given them, (2 Cor. 3:18) that they may be one just as We are one:
23 I in them, and You in Me; (Col. 3:14) that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
24 (John 12:26; 14:3;1 Thess. 4:17) “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; Matt. 25:34; John 17:5 for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father! John 15:21 The world has not known You, but John 7:29; 8:55; 10:15 I have known You; and John 3:17; 17:3, 8, 18, 21, 23 these have known that You sent Me.
26 Ex. 34:5–7; John 17:6 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love John 15:9; (Eph. 3:17–19) with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”