The High Priestly Prayer

¹When Jesus had spoken these words, mhe lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, nthe hour has come; oglorify your Son that the Son may pglorify you, ²since qyou have given him authority over all flesh, rto give eternal life to all swhom you have given him. ³tAnd this is eternal life, uthat they know you, vthe only wtrue God, and xJesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴I yglorified you on earth, zhaving accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵And now, Father, aglorify me in your own presence with the glory bthat I had with you cbefore the world existed.

⁶d“I have manifested your name to the people ewhom you gave me out of the world. fYours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything fthat you have given me is from you. ⁸For I have given them gthe words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that hI came from you; and ithey have believed that you sent me. ⁹I am praying for them. jI am not praying for the world but for those kwhom you have given me, for lthey are yours. ¹⁰mAll mine are yours, and yours are mine, and nI am glorified in them. ¹¹And I am no longer in the world, but othey are in the world, and pI am coming to you. qHoly Father, rkeep them in your name, swhich you have given me, tthat they may be one, ueven as we are one. ¹²vWhile I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have wguarded them, and xnot one of them has been lost except ythe son of destruction, zthat the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³But now aI am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have bmy joy fulfilled in themselves. ¹⁴cI have given them your word, and dthe world has hated them ebecause they are not of the world, fjust as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I gdo not ask that you htake them out of the world, but that you ikeep them from jthe evil one.1 ¹⁶kThey are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷lSanctify them2 in the truth; myour word is truth. ¹⁸nAs you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹And ofor their sake pI consecrate myself,3 that they also qmay be sanctified4 in truth.

²⁰“I do not rask for these only, but also for those swho will believe in me through their word, ²¹tthat they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that uthey also may be in vus, so that the world wmay believe that you have sent me. ²²xThe glory that you have given me yI have given to them, tthat they may be one even as we are one, ²³zI in them and you in me, athat they may become perfectly one, bso that the world may know that you sent me and cloved them even as dyou loved me. ²⁴Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ewith me fwhere I am, gto see my glory that you have given me because you loved me hbefore the foundation of the world. ²⁵iO righteous Father, even though jthe world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ²⁶kI made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love lwith which you have loved me may be in them, and mI in them.”

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