{"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/wbt/john/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-20T05:00:27.276Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WBT","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":17,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And this is life eternal, 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, O Father, glorify thou me with thy ownself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest to me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Now they have known that all things whatever thou hast given me are from thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For I have given to them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came 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 to me; for they are thine."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thy own name those whom thou hast given to me, that they may be one, as we are."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest to me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition; that the scripture might 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 fulfilled in themselves."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I have given to them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I 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 the evil."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Neither pray I for these alone; but for them also who shall believe on me through their word."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art 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 gavest to me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given to me be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given to me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"O righteous 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 declared to them thy name, and will declare it: that the love with which thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 17 (WBT)","markdown":"[John 17](https://primebible.com/wbt/john/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WBT. https://primebible.com/wbt/john/17 (accessed 2026-06-20)."}}