the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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John 17
The High Priestly Prayer
1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He (C1)raised His eyes to heaven in prayer and said, "Father, the (F1)hour has come. (C2)Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify You.2 "Just as (C1)You have given Him power and authority over all mankind, now glorify Him so that (C2)He may give eternal life (F1)(C3)to all whom You have given Him to be His—permanently and forever.3 "Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, (C1)the only true supreme and sovereign God, and in the same manner know Jesus as the Christ whom (C2)You have sent.4 "(C1)I have glorified You down here on the earth (C2)by (F1)completing the work that You gave Me to do.5 "Now, Father, (C1)glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory and majesty that I had (C2)with You before the world existed.
6 "(C1)I have manifested Your name and revealed Your very self, Your real self to the people whom (C2)You have given Me out of the world; they were (C3)Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have (C4)kept and obeyed Your word.7 "Now at last they know with confident assurance that all You have given Me is from You it is really and truly Yours.8 "For (C1)the words which You gave Me (C2)I have given them; and they received and accepted them and truly understood with confident assurance that (C3)I came from You from Your presence, and they believed without any doubt that (C4)You sent Me.9 "(C1)I pray for them; (C2)I do not pray for the world, but for those (C3)You have given Me, because (C4)they belong to You;10 and (C1)all things that are Mine are Yours, and all things that are Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them.11 "I am no longer in the world; yet (C1)they are still in the world, and (C2)I am coming to You. (C3)Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name (C4)which You have given Me, so that (C5)they may be one just as We are.12 "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name (C1)which You have given Me; and I guarded them and protected them, and (C2)not one of them was lost except (F1)(C3)the son of destruction, so that the (C4)Scripture would be fulfilled. (VR1)
The Disciples in the World
13 "But now (C1)I am coming to You; and (C2)I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may experience My (C3)joy made full and complete and perfect within them filling their hearts with My delight.14 "I have given to them Your word the message You gave Me; and (C1)the world has hated them because (C2)they are not of the world and do not belong to the world, just as I am not of the world and do not belong to it.15 "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but that You keep them and protect them from (C1)the evil one.16 "(C1)They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.17 "(C1)Sanctify them in the truth set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy; Your word is truth.18 "Just as (C1)You commissioned and sent Me into the world, (C2)I also have commissioned and sent them (believers) into the world.19 "For their sake (F1)I (C1)sanctify Myself to do Your will, so that they also may be (C2)sanctified set apart, dedicated, made holy (C3)in Your truth.20 "I do not pray for these alone it is not for their sake only that I make this request, but also for all those who will ever believe and trust in Me through their message,21 that they all may be one; (C1)just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, (C2)so that the world may believe without any doubt that (C3)You sent Me.
Their Future Glory
22 "I have given to them the (C1)glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one;23 (C1)I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know without any doubt that (C2)You sent Me, and that You have (C3)loved them, just as You have loved Me.24 "Father, I desire that (C1)they also, whom You have given to Me as Your gift to Me, (C2)may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My (C3)glory which You have given Me, because You loved Me before (C4)the foundation of the world.25 "O (C1)just and righteous Father, although (C2)the world has not known You and has never acknowledged You and the revelation of Your mercy, yet I have always known You; and these believers know without any doubt that (C3)You sent Me;26 (C1)and I have made Your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that (C2)the love with which You have loved Me may be in them overwhelming their heart, and I may be in them."
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