John 17
26 verses
The High Priestly Prayer opens with Jesus lifting his eyes to heaven and praying, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you," establishing that Jesus' passion and resurrection constitute mutual glorification between Father and Son. Jesus defines eternal life (zoē aiōnios) not as mere duration but as the relational knowledge of the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent—a definition that reframes eternity as intimate communion and true knowledge rather than temporal endlessness. Jesus prays for the disciples: "I am praying for those whom you have given me, for they are yours," claiming that all whom the Father has given to Jesus remain unalterably his, and asking the Father to protect them in the Father's name and to sanctify them in truth. The prayer extends beyond the immediate disciples to all believers: "I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word," encompassing the entire future Church and revealing Jesus' intercessory concern for generations yet unborn. The climactic petition requests that all believers be one—"as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, may they also be in us"—a unity that testifies to the world that the Father has sent Jesus, and that Jesus has loved them as the Father has loved Jesus. Jesus emphasizes that he has made the Father's name known to them and will continue to do so, so that the love with which the Father loves Jesus may be in them, and Jesus himself in them—establishing the deepest participation in the trinitarian life as the fruit of faith and the Father's will.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
We bring nothing; He provides everything.. The imagery here is agricultural — the original audience would have immediate...
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These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
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As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
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And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. The promise here is not conditional on our strength but on His character.. The t...
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I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
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And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
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Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
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For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
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I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
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And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
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And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
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And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
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I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
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They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
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As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
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And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
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Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
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That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
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I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
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Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
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O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
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And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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