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1 Jesus spoke these things, then lifted his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you, 2 just as you gave him authority over all flesh, so that he may give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.
6 I have revealed your name to the people you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, 8 because I have given them the words you gave me. They received them and truly knew that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those you have given me, because they are yours. 10 All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 Just as you sent me into the world, I sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, so that they too may be sanctified in truth.
20 I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. 22 I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one: 23 I in them and you in me, so that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them just as you loved me. 24 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, which you have given me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you sent me. 26 I made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”