Christ prays for Himself, His disciples, and for all believers
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📚✭Jesus spoke these words, raised his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come.✭ Glorify your Son so that your Son may also glorify✭ you, 2 📚as you have given him authority✭ over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 📚And this is eternal life,✭ that they might know you the only true God✭ and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.4 📚✭“I have glorified you on the earth. I have finished the work that you gave me to do. 5 📚✭And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
6 📚✭“I have revealed your name✭ to the men whom 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 have come to know that all things which you have given me are from you. 8 📚For I have given to them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and have known with certainty that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
9 📚✭“I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 📚✭And all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 📚✭And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are. 12 📚✭While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you gave me, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition,✭ that the Scripture might be fulfilled.✭
13 📚“And now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world, so that they might have my joy✭ in them to the full. 14 📚✭I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
15 📚✭“I am not praying that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep✭ them from the evil one. 16 📚They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17 📚✭Sanctify them through your truth. Your word is truth. 18 📚As you sent me into the world, even so I have also sent them into the world. 19 📚And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 📚✭“I am praying not only for these, but also for those who will believe in me through their words, 21 📚✭so that they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
22 📚“And the glory which you gave me I have given them, 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 have loved them just as you have loved me.
24 📚✭“Father, I desire that those whom you have given me, also be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory which you gave me. For you loved me before the foundation of the world.