Chapter XVIII: Christ's Prayer for His Disciples

1 [17:1]JESUS spoke these words and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee, [17:2]as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that as to all that thou hast given him he should give them eternal life. [17:3]And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. [17:4]I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do. [17:5]And now glorify thou me, Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

2 [17:6]I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gayest me out of the world; they were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. [17:7]Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are of thee, [17:8]because the words which thou hast given me I have given them; and they have received and known truly that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me. [17:9]I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine, [17:10]and all mine are thine, and thine mine, and I am glorified in them. [17:11]And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we also are. [17:12]When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name which thou gayest me, and preserved [them], and no one of them has been lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled; [17:13]but now I come to thee, and I say these things in the world that they may have my joy made complete in them.

3 [17:14]I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. [17:15]I ask not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from evil. [17:16]They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. [17:17]Sanctify them by thy truth; thy word is truth. [17:18]As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world: [17:19]and I sanctify myself for them, that they also may be sanctified by truth.

4 [17:20]And I ask not for these only, but for those also who shall believe on me through their word, [17:21]that 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. [17:22]And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one as we are one, [17:23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. [17:24]Father, what thou hast given me, I will that they should be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; because thou didst love me before the foundation of the world; [17:25]and, righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou didst send me. [17:26]And I have declared to them thy name, and will declare it, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, as I also am in them.