Prayer for the Son

¹ When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. ² For^* You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him. ³ Now this is eternal^* life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. ⁴ I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing 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.

Prayer for the Disciples

⁶ I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You. ⁸ For I have given^* them the words You gave^* Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

⁹ I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours. ¹⁰ All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine; and in them I have been glorified. ¹¹ I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You.

Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one. ¹² While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction,^* so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

¹³ But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them. ¹⁴ I have given^* them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁵ I am not asking 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 by the truth; Your word is truth. ¹⁸ As^* You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. ¹⁹ For them I sanctify^* Myself, so that they too may be sanctified^* by the truth.

Prayer for All Believers

²⁰ I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message, ²¹ that^* all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am 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 gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one — ²³ I in them and You in Me — that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

²⁴ Father, I want those You have given^* Me to be with Me where I am, that^* they may see the glory You gave^* Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵ Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me. ²⁶ And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”