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John 17

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1Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;Cross-references: Ps 121:1 · Ps 123:1 · Isa 38:14 · Mark 14:41 · Luke 18:13 · Luke 22:53 · +14 more

2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Ps 110:1 · Dan 7:14 · Matt 11:27 · Matt 28:18 · John 3:35 · +24 more

3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.Cross-references: 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 15:3 · Ps 9:10 · Isa 48:16 · Isa 53:11 · Isa 61:1 · +35 moreExamined: Unitarianism →

4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.Cross-references: Luke 22:37 · John 4:34 · John 5:36 · John 9:3 · John 12:28 · John 13:31 · +6 more

5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.Cross-references: Prov 8:22 · Matt 25:34 · John 1:1 · John 1:18 · John 3:13 · John 8:58 · +12 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

6“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.Cross-references: Ex 3:13 · Ex 9:16 · Ex 34:5 · Ps 22:22 · Ps 71:17 · Ps 119:11 · +37 more

7Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,Cross-references: John 7:16 · John 8:28 · John 10:29 · John 12:49 · John 14:7 · John 14:20 · +3 more

8for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.Cross-references: Prov 1:3 · Prov 1:23 · Prov 2:1 · Prov 4:10 · Prov 8:10 · Matt 13:11 · +22 more

9I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.Cross-references: Luke 8:34 · Luke 22:32 · John 14:16 · John 16:26 · John 17:2 · John 17:6 · +8 more

10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.Cross-references: John 5:23 · John 10:30 · John 11:4 · John 12:23 · John 16:14 · Acts 19:17 · +10 more

11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.Cross-references: Ps 17:8 · Ps 79:9 · Prov 18:10 · Isa 27:3 · Isa 64:2 · Jer 14:7 · +40 more

12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.Cross-references: Ps 109:6 · Luke 4:26 · John 6:37 · John 6:39 · John 6:70 · John 10:27 · +7 more

13But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.Cross-references: Neh 8:10 · Ps 43:4 · Ps 126:5 · John 3:29 · John 13:3 · John 15:11 · +8 more

14I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Prov 29:27 · Zech 11:8 · Matt 10:24 · John 7:7 · John 8:23 · +6 more

15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.Cross-references: Gen 48:16 · 1Chr 4:10 · Ps 30:9 · Ps 121:7 · Eccl 9:10 · Isa 38:18 · +10 more

16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.Cross-references: John 17:14

17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:28 · Ps 12:6 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 119:9 · Ps 119:11 · Ps 119:104 · +17 more

18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.Cross-references: Isa 61:1 · Matt 10:5 · Matt 23:34 · John 4:38 · John 17:3 · John 17:8 · +6 more

19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.Cross-references: Isa 62:1 · Jer 1:5 · John 10:36 · John 17:17 · 1Cor 1:2 · 2Cor 4:15 · +10 more

20“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,Cross-references: John 17:6 · Acts 2:41 · Acts 4:4 · Rom 15:18 · Rom 16:26 · Eph 4:11 · +1 more

21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.Cross-references: Jer 32:39 · Ezek 37:16 · Ezek 37:22 · Zeph 3:9 · Zech 14:9 · John 3:17 · +25 more

22The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one,Cross-references: Mark 6:7 · Mark 16:17 · Luke 22:30 · John 1:14 · John 1:16 · John 14:20 · +15 more

23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.Cross-references: John 3:17 · John 6:56 · John 13:35 · John 14:10 · John 14:23 · John 16:27 · +19 more

24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.Cross-references: Gen 45:13 · Prov 8:21 · Matt 25:21 · Matt 25:23 · Matt 25:34 · Matt 26:29 · +17 more

25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.Cross-references: Isa 45:21 · Matt 11:27 · Matt 16:16 · Luke 10:22 · John 1:18 · John 3:17 · +30 more

26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”Cross-references: Ps 22:22 · John 6:56 · John 8:50 · John 14:20 · John 14:23 · John 15:4 · +21 more

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