Thematic Bible
John 17:1 (show verse)
When he had thus spoken, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the hour is come. Glorify the Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;
John 17:2 (show verse)
since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.
John 17:3 (show verse)
And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
John 17:4 (show verse)
I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 17:5 (show verse)
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.
John 17:6 (show verse)
"I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.
John 17:7 (show verse)
They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee;
John 17:8 (show verse)
for I have given them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John 17:9 (show verse)
"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,
John 17:10 (show verse)
and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.
John 17:11 (show verse)
I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
John 17:12 (show verse)
While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:13 (show verse)
"But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.
John 17:14 (show verse)
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.
John 17:15 (show verse)
I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.
John 17:16 (show verse)
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 (show verse)
Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.
John 17:18 (show verse)
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so I also have sent them into the world.
John 17:19 (show verse)
And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.
John 17:20 (show verse)
"Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
John 17:21 (show verse)
that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 17:22 (show verse)
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one,
John 17:23 (show verse)
I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.
John 17:24 (show verse)
"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.
John 17:25 (show verse)
O righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, I have known thee, and these have known that though didst send me.
John 17:26 (show verse)
And I have declared??nd will declare??hy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."