John 17:6-19 - Jesus Prays For His Disciples

⁶ I have revealed your name [i.e., your power and character] to the men you gave me out of the world [i.e., the apostles]. They belonged to you, but you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything you gave me came from you, ⁸ because I have given them the message you gave me, and they accepted it. They [also] knew for certain that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. ⁹ I am praying for them [i.e., the apostles]; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you gave me, who belong to you. ¹⁰ And everything I have belongs to you, and what you have belongs to me; and I am honored through these men. ¹¹ And [now] I am coming to you, for I will not be in the world any longer, yet these men are [still] in the world. Holy Father, protect them by [the power of] your name which you have given me. May these men be one, as we are. ¹² I protected them while I was with them by [the power of] your name which you gave me. [See verse 11]. I guarded them so that not one of them was lost except the "son of destruction" [i.e., Judas]. [This was] so that the Scripture would be fulfilled [Psa. 41:9 ?]. ¹³ But now I am coming to you, and I am speaking these things [while still] in the world, so that they [i.e., the apostles] may have my joy within them in all its fullness. ¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁵ I am not praying that you should take them out of the world, but that you should protect them from the evil one [i.e., the devil]. ¹⁶ They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁷ Set them apart [i.e., for your service] through the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ Just as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent [i.e., will send] them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I dedicate myself [to you] so that they themselves also may be truly dedicated [to you].