Jesus spoke these
words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him
authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You
have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true
God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I
have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify
Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world
was.
“I have manifested Your name to the men whom
You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and
they have kept Your word. Now they have known that all things which You have
given Me are from You. For I have given to them the words which You have given
Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from
You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
“I pray for
them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for
they are Yours. And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified
in them. Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I
come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me,
that they may be one as We are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them
in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost
except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I
come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy
fulfilled in themselves. 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. I do not
pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them
from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify
them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also
have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they
also may be sanctified by the truth.
“I do not pray
for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their
word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that
they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And
the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We
are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and
that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have
loved Me.
“Father, I
desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may
behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation
of the world. O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known
You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your
name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in
them, and I in them.”
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