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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 17 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > John 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/16.htm" title="John 16">◄</a> John 17 <a href="../john/18.htm" title="John 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/john/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The High Priestly Prayer</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, <span class="woc">“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="woc">since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="woc">And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="woc">I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="woc">And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="woc">“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="woc">Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="woc">For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="woc">I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woc">All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woc">And 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, that they may be one, even as we are one.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="woc">While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woc">But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="woc">I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="woc">I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or from evil">a</a></sup></span></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woc">They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="woc">Sanctify them<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek Set them apart (for holy service to God)">b</a></sup></span> in the truth; your word is truth.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woc">As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="woc">And for their sake I consecrate myself,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or I sanctify myself; or I set myself apart (for holy service to God)">c</a></sup></span> that they also may be sanctified<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek may be set apart (for holy service to God)">d</a></sup></span> in truth.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="woc">“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="woc">that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="woc">The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="woc">I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="woc">Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="woc">O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="woc">I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">from</span> evil</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Greek <i>Set them apart</i> (for holy service to God)<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">I</span> sanctify myself</i>; or <i><span class="catch-word">I</span> set myself apart</i> (for holy service to God)<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">may be</span> set apart</i> (for holy service to God)<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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