{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/john/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:21:32.083Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":17,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Now they have known, that all things which thou hast given me, are from thee: "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine: "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And all my things are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me; "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Just Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee: and these have known that thou hast sent me. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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. "}],"citation":{"inline":"John 17 (DRB)","markdown":"[John 17](https://primebible.com/drb/john/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/john/17 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}