{"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/wnt/john/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:13:03.805Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":17,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, |Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in  knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which  by Thine appointment has been mine to do."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence, with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|I have revealed Thy  perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me, and  they have obeyed Thy message."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Now they know that whatever Thou hast given me is  from Thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For the truths which Thou didst  teach me I have taught them. And they have received them, and have known for certain that I came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou didst send me."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|I am making request  for them: for the world  I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and everything that is mine is Thine, and everything that is Thine is mine; and I  am crowned with glory in them."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. |Holy Father, keep them  true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me  to bear--that they may be one, even as we are."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me  to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is  doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I have given them Thy  Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from  the Evil one."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Make them holy  in the truth: Thy  Message is truth."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also  have sent them;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"and on their behalf I  consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for  those who trust in me through their teaching;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world  may believe that Thou didst send me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And the glory which Thou hast given me  I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected  in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"|Father,  those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they  may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And I have made known Thy  name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"John 17 (WNT)","markdown":"[John 17](https://primebible.com/wnt/john/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/john/17 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}