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The High Priestly Prayer

¹ When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(a)he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, ^(b)the hour has come; ^(c)glorify your Son that the Son may ^(d)glorify you, ² since ^(e)you have given him authority over all flesh, ^(f)to give eternal life to all ^(g)whom you have given him. ^3 (h)And this is eternal life, ⁽ⁱ⁾that they know you, ^(j)the only ^(k)true God, and ^(l)Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴ I ^(m)glorified you on earth, ⁽ⁿ⁾having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, ^(o)glorify me in your own presence with the glory ^(p)that I had with you ^(q)before the world existed.

^6 (r)"I have manifested your name to the people ^(s)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(t)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything ^(u)that you have given me is from you. ⁸ For I have given them ^(v)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(w)I came from you; and ^(x)they have believed that you sent me. ⁹ I am praying for them. ^(y)I am not praying for the world but for those ^(z)whom you have given me, for ^(aa)they are yours. ^10 (ab)All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ^(ac)I am glorified in them. ¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but ^(ad)they are in the world, and ^(ae)I am coming to you. ^(af)Holy Father, ^(ag)keep them in your name, ^(ah)which you have given me, ^(ai)that they may be one, ^(aj)even as we are one. ^12 (ak)While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^(al)guarded them, and ^(am)not one of them has been lost except ^(an)the son of destruction, ^(ao)that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now ^(ap)I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have ^(aq)my joy fulfilled in themselves. ^14 (ar)I have given them your word, and ^(as)the world has hated them ^(at)because they are not of the world, ^(au)just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I ^(av)do not ask that you ^(aw)take them out of the world, but that you ^(ax)keep them from ^(ay)the evil one.^{[a] 16 (az)}They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ^17 (ba)Sanctify them^[b] in the truth; ^(bb)your word is truth. ^18 (bc)As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And ^(bd)for their sake ^(be)I consecrate myself,^[c] that they also ^(bf)may be sanctified^[d] in truth.

²⁰ "I do not ^(bg)ask for these only, but also for those ^(bh)who will believe in me through their word, ^21 (bi)that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that ^(bj)they also may be in ^(bk)us, so that the world ^(bl)may believe that you have sent me. ^22 (bm)The glory that you have given me ^(bn)I have given to them, ^(bo)that they may be one even as we are one, ^23 (bp)I in them and you in me, ^(bq)that they may become perfectly one, ^(br)so that the world may know that you sent me and ^(bs)loved them even as ^(bt)you loved me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^(bu)with me ^(bv)where I am, ^(bw)to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^(bx)before the foundation of the world. ^25 (by)O righteous Father, even though ^(bz)the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ^26 (ca)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^(cb)with which you have loved me may be in them, and ^(cc)I in them."