BG - New Testament

Chapter 17

Jesus offers the great Intercessory Prayer—He is glorified by gaining eternal life—He prays for His Apostles and all the Saints—He explains how the Father and Son are one.

1. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy

Son, that thy Son also may

glorify thee:

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2. As thou hast given him

power over all flesh, that he should give

eternal life to as many as thou hast

given him.

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3. And this is

life

eternal, that they might

know thee the only true

God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast

sent.

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4. I have

glorified thee on the earth: I have

finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

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5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the

glory which I had with thee

before the world was.

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6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me

out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

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7. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast

given me are of thee.

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8. For I have given unto them the

words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I

came out from thee, and they have

believed that thou didst send me.

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9. I

pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which

thou hast given me; for they are thine.

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10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

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11. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the

world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be

one, as we are.

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12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and

none of them is

lost, but the son of

perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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13. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my

joy fulfilled in themselves.

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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.

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15. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the

world, but that thou shouldest

keep them from the

evil.

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16. They are not of the

world, even as I am not of the world.

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17.

Sanctify them through thy

truth: thy word is

truth.

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18. As thou hast

sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

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19. And for their sakes I

sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

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20. Neither

pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall

believe on me through their word;

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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.

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22. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be

one, even as we are

one:

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23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made

perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast

loved them, as thou hast loved me.

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24. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

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25. O righteous Father, the world hath not

known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

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26. And I have

declared unto them thy

name, and will declare it: that the

love wherewith thou hast

loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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