[English Bible Study] John Chapter 17

Jn. 17:1 After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed:

“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son

may glorify you.

Jn. 17:2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might

give eternal life to all those you have given him.

Jn. 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only

true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Jn. 17:4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work

you gave me to do.

Jn. 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I

had with you before the world began.

Jn. 17:6 “I have revealed you [Greek: your name; also in verse 26] to

those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours;

you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.

Jn. 17:7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes

from you.

Jn. 17:8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted

them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and

they believed that you sent me.

Jn. 17:9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those

you have given me, for they are yours.

Jn. 17:10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has

come to me through them.

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Jn. 17:11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the

world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by

the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that

they may be one as we are one.

Jn. 17:12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe

by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one

doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

Jn. 17:13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am

still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of

my joy within them.

Jn. 17:14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,

for they are not of the world any more than I am of the

world.

Jn. 17:15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that

you protect them from the evil one.

Jn. 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

Jn. 17:17 Sanctify [Greek: hagiazo (set apart for sacred use or make

holy); also in verse 19] them by the truth; your word is truth.

Jn. 17:18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the

world.

Jn. 17:19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly

sanctified.

Jn. 17:20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who

will believe in me through their message,

Jn. 17:21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and

I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may

believe that you have sent me.

Jn. 17:22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may

be one as we are one:

Jn. 17:23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete

unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved

them even as you have loved me.

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Jn. 17:24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where

I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me

because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Jn. 17:25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I

know you, and they know that you have sent me.

Jn. 17:26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make

you known in order that the love you have for me may be in

them and that I myself may be in them.”