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17:1-26
Jesus said these things (and then) lifting up his eyes to heaven he said
"Father the hour has (now) come.
Glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you. You have given him authority over
all flesh so that he may give eternal life to what you have given
him. And this is eternal life -
that
they may know you the only true God and also he whom you have sent, that is,
Jesus Christ. I have glorified
you on earth finishing the work that you have given me to do. So now glorify me Father with the
glory that I had with you before the world began. I have shown your name to the people
that you have given to me from out of the world. They belonged to you and you gave
them to me. They have kept your
word. Now they know that all
the things that you have given me, do exist. This is because the words that you
gave to me, I have given to them, and they have received them. They truly have known that I came
forth from you and they have believed that you did send me. I make a
request concerning them. It is
not concerning the world that I make the request but
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concerning
those that you have given to me.
This is because they are yours and all my things are yours and your
things are mine. I have been
glorified in them. I am no
longer in the world. (But) they
are in the world. I am coming
to you holy Father. Keep them
in your name - the name that you have given to me, so that they may be one as
we are (one). When I was with
them I kept them in your name - the name that you have given to me. I guarded them and not one of them
perished, except for the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be
fulfilled. But now that
I am coming to you I am speaking these things in the world so that
they may have my joy fulfilled within themselves. I have given your
word to them. The world hated
them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you should take
them out of the world. But
rather that you should keep them out of the (clutches) of the evil
one. They are not of the world,
just as I am not of the world.
Make them holy in the truth.
Your word is truth. Just
as you have sent me into the world, so I also send them into the
world. It is on their behalf
that I make myself
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holy
so that they may also be made holy in the truth. It is not only concerning these that
I make this request. (I also
make it) concerning those who believe in me through their word (in
turn). This is so that
all may be one, as you Father are in me and I am in you, so that
they also may be within us. And, also that the world may
believe that you did send me.
As for the glory that you have given to me, I have given it to them,
so that they may be one as we are one.
I am in them. You are in
me, so that they, on being perfected as one (group) may let the world know
that you did send me and you did love them, as you did love me. Father as regards what you have
given to me. I wish that where
I am they also may be, so that they are with me and that they may behold my glory -
glory that you have given to me because you loved me from before the
foundation of the world. Father, righteous one, the world did not know you
indeed. But I knew you and
these (here) did know that you sent me. I have made your name known to them
and will make it (further) known.
This is so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and
I (also may be) in them."
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