17:1 Having said all these things, Jesus then looked up into the sky and said, “Father, the time has come for you to honor the Son so the Son may in turn honor you.

17:2 Just as you gave him jurisdiction over everyone, so also he will give eternal life to all those you gave him.

17:3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the one true God, and the one you commissioned, Jesus the Anointed.

17:4 I honored you on the earth, completing the tasks you gave me to do.

17:5 And now, Father, honor me along with yourself, with the honor I had along with you before the world was made.

17:6 “I revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have stayed true to your word.

17:7 Now they have understood that all you have given me is from you,

17:8 because I passed on to them the declarations you gave me. They accepted them and know for a fact that I came from you and was commissioned by you.

17:9 These are the ones I’m asking about. Now I’m not asking about the world, but about those you’ve given me, since they are yours;

17:10 after all, what’s mine is yours, and yours is mine. And I have been honored in them.

17:11 “I am not remaining in the world, but these people are, and I am returning to you. Holy Father, guard those who represent you, which you have given to me, so that they may be one just as we are.

17:12 When I was with them in the world I guarded those you gave me as your representatives. I watched over them and not one of them was lost except for the doomed one, in fulfillment of the scriptures.

17:13 Yet now I am returning to you, and I’m saying these things in the world so that they may be filled with my happiness.

17:14 “I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I’m not of the world.

17:15 I’m not asking you to take them up out of the world, but that you would guard them from the evil one.

17:16 Again, they are not of the world, just as I’m not of the world.

17:17 “Consecrate them by your truth; your word is truth.

17:18 Just as you commissioned me into the world, so also I commissioned them into the world.

17:19 And for their sakes I consecrated myself, so that they too would be consecrated in truth.

17:20 “Yet I’m not only asking about these, but also about the ones who will put their trust in me through their word.

17:21 Then they may all be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you, and they too may be in us. Through this the world may believe that you commissioned me.

17:22 And I have given them the honor you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are—

17:23 I in them and you in me— that they may be a complete unity, and that the world may know that you commissioned me and loved them as you have loved me.

17:24 “Father, I would also prefer that those you have given me would be where I am, so they can see the honor you have given me, because you loved me before the world was established.

17:25 Also, Impartial Father, the world did not know you, but I did, and these know that you commissioned me.

17:26 I made your name known to them, and I will make it known that the love you loved me with may be in them, and I in them.”