Christ's prayer for his disciples.
[1] These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.
[2] As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.
[3] Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
[4] I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
[5] And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.
[6] I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them; and they have kept thy word.
[7] Now they have known, that all things which thou hast given me, are from thee:
[8] Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
[9] I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine:
[10] And all my things are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
[11] And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.
[12] While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.
[13] And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.
[14] I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also am not of the world.
[15] I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
[16] They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
[17] Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.
[18] As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
[19] And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
[20] And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me;
[21] That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
[22] And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one:
[23] I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.
[24] Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me; that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.
[25] Just Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee: and these have known that thou hast sent me.
[26] And I have made known thy name to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.
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