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John 17

1After Jesus had said these things, he raised his eyes toward heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, so the son can glorify you, 2in the same way as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he could give eternal live to everyone that you have him. 3But this is what eternal life is: That they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you sent. 4I have glorified you on earth. I have completed the work you gave me to do. 5And now glorify me along with you, Father, with the glory you have had with you before there was a world.

6I revealed your name to the human beings you gave me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them also to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that all the things you gave me were from you. 8Because I gave them the words you gave me, and they received them, and they truly know that they came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I make my request concerning them. It's not concerning the world that I make my request, but concerning the ones whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10And my things are your and yours are mine, I have been glorified by them. 11But I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them by the name you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 12When I was with them I kept them in your name, the one you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them were lost except the son of destruction, so that the scriptures could be fulfilled. 13But now I'm coming to you, and I'm saying these things in the world so they can have my joy made completely full in them. 14I have given them your world, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, in the same was as I am not of the world. 15I'm not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17Make them holy through the truth. Your word is truth. 18In the same way as you sent me into the world, I also send them into the world. 19And for them I make myself holy, so that they might also be made holy through the truth. 20I'm not asking about these alone, but also about those who will put their faith in me by means of their message, 21so that all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, so that also they might be in us, so that the world might believe that you sent me. 22And I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 23I in them and you in me, so that they might be made mature in unity, so that the world might know that you sent me and you loved them just as you loved me. 24Father, I wish that those whom you've given me might also be with me where I am, so that they might see my glory which you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25Righteous father, indeed the world did not know you, but I knew you, and they knew that you sent me. 26And I made your name known to them and I will continue to make it known so that the love with which you loved me might be in them as I also am in them.

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