Jesus Prays for His Own
1When Jesus had said this, he lifted his eyes toward heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you, 2just as you gave him authority over all flesh, so that he may give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and the one you sent, Jesus Christ. 4I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed. 6I have made your name known to the people you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you, 8for I gave them the words you gave me, and they received them. They know for certain that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me. 9I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, because they are yours. 10Everything of mine is yours, and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11I 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 — the name you have given me — so that they may be one, as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in your name, the name you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. 13Now I am coming to you, and I say these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I make myself holy, so that they too may be made holy in truth. 20I am not praying only for these. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21that they may all be one — as you, Father, are in me and I am in you — that they too may be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. 22I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me, so that they may be brought to complete unity, and the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them as you loved me. 24Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory — the glory you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you sent me. 26I made your name known to them, and I will keep making it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I myself in them.”
