Thought 278
John 17 – Jesus praying
for Himself, His disciples, and All Believers
(pay attention to how
short Jesus prayer for Himself is compared to His prayer for others)
These words spake
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: As
thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to
as many as thou hast given him.
And this is life
eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I
have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O
Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with
thee before the world was.
I have
manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine
they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now
they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have
received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have
believed that thou didst send me.
I pray
for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for
they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine;
and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the
world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep
through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as
we are.
While I was with them
in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept,
and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be
fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak
in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I have given them thy
word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as
I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take
them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
They are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the
truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them
also which shall believe on me through their word; 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. And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as
we are one: 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.
Father,
I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that
they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before
the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world
hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast
sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will
declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
them.” –
John 17 KJV (quotation marks added)
