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The High Priestly Prayer

¹ Jesus spoke these things; and ^(C1)lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; ^(C2)glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,² even as ^(C1)You gave Him authority over all flesh, that ^(C2)to ^(F1)all whom You have given Him, ^(C3)He may give eternal life.³ "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, ^(C1)the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom ^(C2)You have sent.⁴ "^(C1)I glorified You on the earth, ^(F1)(C2)having finished the work which You have given Me to do.⁵ "Now, Father, ^(C1)glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had ^(C2)with You before the world was.

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶ "^(C1)I have manifested Your name to the men whom ^(C2)You gave Me out of the world; they were ^(C3)Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have ^(C4)kept Your word.⁷ "Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;⁸ for ^(C1)the words which You gave Me ^(C2)I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that ^(C3)I came forth from You, and they believed that ^(C4)You sent Me.⁹ "^(C1)I ask on their behalf; ^(C2)I do not ask on behalf of the world but of those whom ^(C3)You have given Me; for ^(C4)they are Yours;¹⁰ and ^(C1)all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.¹¹ "And I am no longer in the world; and yet ^(C1)they themselves are in the world, and ^(C2)I come to You. ^(C3)Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^(C4)which You have given Me, that ^(C5)they may be one even 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 ^(C2)not one of them perished but ^(C3)the ^(F1)son of perdition, so that the ^(C4)Scripture would be fulfilled.¹³ "But now ^(C1)I come to You; and ^(C2)these things I speak in the world so that they may have My ^(C3)joy made full in themselves.¹⁴ "I have given them Your word; and ^(C1)the world has hated them, because ^(C2)they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.¹⁵ "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them ^(F1)from ^(F2)(C1)the evil one.¹⁶ "^(C1)They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.¹⁷ "^(C1)Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.¹⁸ "As ^(C1)You sent Me into the world, ^(C2)I also sent them into the world.¹⁹ "For their sake I ^(C1)sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be ^(C2)sanctified ^(C3)in truth.

²⁰ "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;²¹ that they may all be one; ^(C1)even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, ^(C2)so that the world may ^(F1)believe that ^(C3)You sent Me.²² "The ^(C1)glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;^23 (C1)I in them and You in Me, that they may be ^(F1)perfected ^(F2)in unity, so that the world may ^(F3)know that ^(C2)You sent Me, and ^(C3)loved them, even as You have loved Me.²⁴ "Father, I desire that ^(C1)they also, whom You have given Me, ^(C2)be with Me where I am, so that they may see My ^(C3)glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before ^(C4)the foundation of the world.

²⁵ "O ^(C1)righteous Father, ^(F1)although ^(C2)the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that ^(C3)You sent Me;²⁶ and ^(C1)I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that ^(C2)the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."