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

⁶ I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart. ⁷ They recognize now that everything that thou gavest me was from thee; ⁸ For I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou has sent me as thy Messenger. ⁹ I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own-- ¹⁰ All that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine-- and I am honored in them. ¹¹ Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are. ¹² Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture. ¹³ But now I am to come to thee; and I am speaking thus, while still in the world, that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts. ¹⁴ I have given them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁵ I do not ask thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from Evil. ¹⁶ They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁷ Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth. ¹⁸ Just as thou has sent me as thy Messenger to the world, so I send them as my Messengers to the world. ¹⁹ And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.