John

John 17

1Christ prayeth to his Father to glorify him; 6and to preserve his apostles in unity of faith, 15and from all evil; 17and to sanctify them with the word of truth: 20and for the perfect union of all believers, and their admission to a share of his glory in heaven.


1THESE awords spake Jesus, and blifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, cthe hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

a ch. 14-16. b Ps. 121.1; 123.1; 25.1. ch. 11.41. c ch. 7.30; 8.20; 12.23,27,28; 13.1,31,32; 16.4,32. Mar. 14.35,41. Lu. 22.53. Mat. 26.45,46,51-53.

2dAs thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should egive eternal life to fas many as thou hast given him.

d Da. 7.13,14. Mat. 11.27; 28.18. ch. 3.31,35; 5.22,27. He. 1.2; 2.8,9. Ep. 1.20-23. Phi. 2.9-11. 1Co. 15.25. Ps. 110.1. e v.24. ch. 4.14; 6.27,54-57; 10.28; 11.25,26. 1Co. 3.22. Ac. 5.31. Is. 53.10-12. Col. 3.3. f ch. 6.37; 18.9.

3gAnd this is life eternal, hthat they might know thee ithe only true God, and Jesus Christ, jwhom thou hast sent.

g 1Jn. 5.11. h Is. 53.11. Je. 9.23,24. 1Jn. 5.20. 1Co. 2.2. Phi. 3.7-11. i De. 6.4. ch. 10.30; 14.9,10. 1Co. 8.6. 1Ti. 2.5,6. 1Th. 1.9. j Is. 48.16; 61.1. Mar. 9.37. Lu. 4.18,43; 9.48. ch. 3.16,34; 5.36,38; 6.27,29,57; 7.29; 8.42; 10.36; 11.42. v.8,18,21,23,25. Ro. 8.3. Ga. 4.4. 1Jn. 4.10.

4kI have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

k Mat. 9.8; 15.31. Mar. 2.12. Lu. 5.26; 18.43. ch. 4.34; 13.31,32; 19.30; 5.36; 9.3; 11.4,40; 12.28; 14.11,13; 8.29; 15.10. Is. 42.21. Mat. 3.15. 2Ti. 4.7.

5And now, O Father, lglorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which mI had with thee before the world was.

l v.24. Phi. 2.9-11. Ps. 110.1. ch. 13.32. Ep. 1.20-23. 1Pe. 3.22. Re. 3.21; 5.9,12. Pr. 6.31. m ch. 1.1,2. Phi. 2.6. He. 1.3,10. 1Pe. 1.20. Re. 13.8. Mat. 25.34.

6nI have manifested thy name unto othe men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and pthey have kept thy word.

n v.7,14,26. ch. 1.18. Ps. 22.22. He. 2.12. Is. 61.1. o v.2,9-12,14,16,24. ch. 10.27,29; 15.19; 18.9; 6.37. 2Ti. 2.19. Ro. 8.30; 11.2. Ac. 13.48. p He. 3.6. Ps. 119.11. Pr. 23.23. 2Ti. 1.13. Jude 3. Re. 2.13; 3.3,8,10. ch. 8.51.

7qNow they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

q ch. 15.15; 16.27,28,30; 6.69; 8.28; 12.49; 14.10. ch. 16.27,30.

8For rI 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.

r v.6,7,13,15. ch. 6.68; 14.10.

9sI pray for them: tI pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for uthey are thine.

s v.11-24. He. 7.25,26; 9.24. Ro. 8.30,33,34. Lu. 22.32 t 1Jn. 5.19. u v.6.

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

v ch. 16.15; 10.10,11. Ac. 13.48. Ro. 8.30. w Ga. 1.24. 1Pe. 2.9.

11xAnd now I am no more in the world, but these are in ythe world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, zkeep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, athat they may be one, bas we are.

x ch. 16.28. Ac. 1.9. y Ga. 1.4. Ja. 4.4. 1Jn. 2.16. Ro. 12.2. z Ps. 16.1; 121.3-8. Is. 27.3; 49.16. 1Pe. 1.5. Jude 1,24. Pr. 18.10. a v.21-23. Ep. 4.4,5,13. Ro. 12.16; 15.5,6. 1Co. 1.10. 2Co. 13.11. Phi. 2.2. b ch. 10.30.

12While I was with them in the world, cI kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but dthe son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

c He. 2.13. ch. 10.28; 18.9; 6.39,70,71; 13.18. Jude 1. d ch. 6.70; 13.18. 1Jn. 2.19. 2Th. 2.3. Ps. 109.7,8. Ac. 1.20.

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

e v.6-8,11,12. ch. 15.11; 16.4,33; 14-16. 1Jn. 1.4. Phi. 4.4. Ps. 1.2.

14fI have given them thy word; and gthe world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

f v.8,12. g v.16. ch. 15.18-21. 1Jn. 3.13. ch. 8.23. Mat. 10.24,25. Ge. 3.15. Pr. 29.27. He. 11.13. 1Pe. 4.4. 1Co. 15.49.

15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest hkeep them from ithe evil.

h v.11. Mat. 6.13. 1Jn. 2.16; 5.18,19. 2Th. 3.2. Ga. 1.4. 2Ti. 3.1-5,12,13. i Mat. 13.19.

16jThey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

j v.14.

17kSanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

k ch. 15.3. Ac. 15.9. Ep. 5.26. 2Th. 2.13. 1Pe. 1.22. v.19. 2Co. 3.18. ch. 8.31,32,51. Ps. 119.5,6,11,104,151.

18lAs thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

l Ps. 61.1-3. ch. 10.36; 20.21-23. 2Co. 5.20. Ep. 3.8; 6.20.

19mAnd for their sakes I nsanctify myself, that they also might be 1sanctified through the truth.

1Or, truly sanctified.

m He. 13.12; 9.14; 10.7,9,10. Ep. 5.25,26. 1Pe. 1.18,19; 2.24; 3.18. 1Co. 1.2,30. 1Th. 4.7. n ch. 10.36.

20Neither pray I for othese alone, but for pthem also which shall believe on me through their word;

o v.6-11. Ac. 1.13; 2-19. Ep. 4.11. 1Co. 12.28. p Ac. 2.41; 4.4.

21That they all qmay be one; ras thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: sthat the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

q v.11,22,23. Ac. 2.46; 4.32. Ro. 12.5. Ep. 4.3-6. 1Co. 1.10. Ga. 3.28. 1Jn. 1.3. r ch. 1.18; 5.19,23; 10.30,38; 14.9,10,22. v.11,12. Phi. 2.6. 1Jn. 5.7. s ch. 13.35; 14.10. Mat. 5.16. Ac. 4.13. 1Co. 14.24,25.

22And tthe glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

t ch. 1.14. Ro. 8.30.

23uI in them, and thou in me, that they may be made vperfect in one; and wthat the world may know that thou hast sent me, and xhast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

u ch. 14.23. 1Jn. 2.5; 4.12-17. Ga. 2.20. Ro. 8.11. Col. 2.9,10. ch. 14.10,20; 6.57. Is. 42.1. v v.21. He. 11.40; 12.23. Col. 2.2. Phi. 3.15. Ep. 4.12,13,16. w ch. 13.35. x 1Jn. 3.1; 4.19. Je. 31.3. Ep. 1.6. v.24. Col. 1.13. Mat. 3.17.

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

y ch. 12.26; 14.3. Phi. 1.23. Re. 3.21. 1Th. 4.17. z 1Jn. 3.2. 2Co. 3.18. 1Co. 13.12. a Ep. 1.4. 1Pe. 1.20.

25O righteous Father, the world bhath not known thee: cbut I have known thee, and dthese have known that thou hast sent me.

b ch. 8.19,55; 15.21; 16.3. Mat. 11.25,26. c ch. 1.18; 7.29; 8.55; 10.15; 5.19,20. Mat. 11.27. d ch. 16.27. v.8,21. ch. 6.69. Mat. 16.16.

26eAnd I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me fmay be in them, and I gin them.

e ch. 15.15. v.6,8,14. Ps. 22.22. He. 2.12. f 1Jn. 4.16. Ro. 5.5. Ep. 1.6. ch. 15.9. g Col. 1.27. Ep. 3.17. Ga. 2.20. Col. 3.3. v.23.