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, since you have given him authority over
all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And
this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having
accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father,
glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you
before the world existed.
“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. Now they know that everything that you have
given me is from you. 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. I am
praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom
you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and
yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 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. 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. But now I am coming 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 ask that you take them out of the world, but that
you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as
I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is
truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the
world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may
be sanctified in truth.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe
in me through their word, 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. The glory that
you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even
as we are one, 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. 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. O righteous Father, even though the world does not
know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 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.”
