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¹ Jesus having said this, lift up his eyes to heaven, and said, "father, the hour is come; glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee. ² for thou hast given him power over all men, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. ³ and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent. ⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵ and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world.

⁶ I have displayed thy name among those whom you have chosen out of the world for me: thine they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept thy word. ⁷ now they believe that the instructions you gave me came from thee. ⁸ for I have given to them the instructions which you gave me; and they have received them; and have sincerely believ'd that I came from thee, and are persuaded that thou didst send me. ⁹ "It is for them I pray: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, because they are thine. ¹⁰ for every thing that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine, and I am glorified by them.

¹¹ and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee. holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are. ¹² by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold. ¹³ now that I am coming to thee, while I am here, I make these requests for them, that their joy in me may be compleat. ¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I do not pray you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the malignity of it. ¹⁶ they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁷ sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth. ¹⁸ as thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹ and for their sakes I consecrate myself, that they also might be consecrated by the truth.

²⁰ neither pray I for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their preaching. ²¹ that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² and the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one. ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

²⁴ father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am going; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world; yet, ²⁵ O righteous father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. ²⁶ to them I have declared thy name, and will declare it: that thou mayst love them as thou hast loved me, and I have loved them."