Johannes 17,5 | New International Reader’s Version

Jesus prays for himself

1 After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed. He said, ‘Father, the time has come. Bring glory to your Son. Then your Son will bring glory to you.

2 You gave him authority over all people. He gives eternal life to all those you have given him.

3 And what is eternal life? It is knowing you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

4 I have brought you glory on earth. I have finished the work you gave me to do.

5 So now, Father, give glory to me in heaven where your throne is. Give me the glory I had with you before the world began.

Jesus prays for his disciples

6 ‘I have shown you to the disciples you gave me out of the world. They were yours. You gave them to me. And they have obeyed your word.

7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.

8 I gave them the words you gave me. And they accepted them. They knew for certain that I came from you. They believed that you sent me.

9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world. I am praying for those you have given me, because they are yours.

10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. Glory has come to me because of my disciples.

11 I will not remain in the world any longer. But they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name. It is the name you gave me. Keep them safe so they can be one, just as you and I are one.

12 While I was with them, I guarded them. I kept them safe through the name you gave me. None of them has been lost, except the one who was heading for ruin. It happened so that Scripture would come true.

13 ‘I am coming to you now. But I say these things while I am still in the world. I say them so that those you gave me can have the same joy that I have.

14 I have given them your word. The world has hated them. That’s because they are not part of the world any more than I am.

15 I do not pray that you will take them out of the world. I pray that you will keep them safe from the evil one.

16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

17 Use the truth to make them holy. Your word is truth.

18 You sent me into the world. In the same way, I have sent them into the world.

19 I make myself holy for them so that they too can be made holy by the truth.

Jesus prays for all believers

20 ‘I do not pray only for them. I pray also for everyone who will believe in me because of their message.

21 Father, I pray they will be one, just as you are in me and I am in you. I want them also to be in us. Then the world will believe that you have sent me.

22 I have given them the glory you gave me. I did this so they would be one, just as we are one.

23 I will be in them, just as you are in me. This is so that they may be brought together perfectly as one. Then the world will know that you sent me. It will also show the world that you have loved those you gave me, just as you have loved me.

24 ‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am. I want them to see my glory, the glory you have given me. You gave it to me because you loved me before the world was created.

25 ‘Father, you are holy. The world does not know you, but I know you. Those you have given me know you have sent me.

26 I have shown you to them. And I will continue to show you to them. Then the love you have for me will be in them. I myself will be in them.’

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English Standard Version

The High Priestly Prayer

1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.

8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.*

16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them* in the truth; your word is truth.

18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

19 And for their sake I consecrate myself,* that they also may be sanctified* in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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