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¹ JESUS spoke these things, and then he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, O my Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you.² Since you have given him power over all flesh, so that to all whom you have given him, he may give life eternal.³ And this is life eternal, that they might know you, that you are the only true God, even the one who sent Jesus Christ.⁴ I have already glorified you on the earth; for the work which you had given to me to do, I have finished it.⁵ So now, O my Father, glorify me with you, with the same glory which I had with you before the world was made.

⁶ I have made your name known to the men whom you gave me out of the world; they were yours and you gave them to me; and they have kept thy word.⁷ Now they know that whatever you have given me is from you.⁸ For the words which you gave me I gave them; and they accepted them, and have known truly that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.⁹ What I request is for them; I make no request for the world, but for those whom you have given to me; because they are yours.¹⁰ And everything which is mine, is yours; and what is yours is mine; and I am glorified by them.

¹¹ Hereafter I am not in the world, but these are in the world; and I am coming to you. O holy Father, protect them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.¹² While I was with them in the world, I protected them in your name; those you gave me I protected, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.¹³ Now I am coming to you; and these things I speak while I am in the world, that my joy may be complete in them.¹⁴ I have given them your word; and the world hated them, because they were not of the world, just as I am not of the world.¹⁵ What I request is not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should protect them from evil.¹⁶ For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁷ O Father, sanctify them in your truth, because your word is truth.¹⁸ Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.¹⁹ And for their sakes, I am sanctifying myself, so that they also may be sanctified in the truth.

²⁰ I am not making request for these alone, but also for the sake of those who believe in me through their word.²¹ So that they all may be one; just as you, my Father, art with me, and I am with you, that they also may be one with us; so that the world may believe you sent me.²² And the glory which you gave me, I gave to them; so that they may be one just as we are one.²³ I with them and you with me, that they may become perfected in one; so that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them just as you loved me.

²⁴ O Father, I wish that those whom you have given me, may also be with me where I am; so that they may see my glory which you have given me; for you have loved me before the foundation of the world.²⁵ O my righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I have known you; and these have known that you have sent me.²⁶ And I have made your name known to them, and I am still making it known; so that the love with which you loved me may be among them, and I be with them.