The High Priestly Prayer

1 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^mhe lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ⁿthe hour has come; ^oglorify your Son that the Son may ^pglorify you, 2 since ^qyou have given him authority over all flesh, ^rto give eternal life to all ^swhom you have given him.

3 ^tAnd this is eternal life, ^uthat they know you, ^vthe only ^wtrue God, and ^xJesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I ^yglorified you on earth, ^zhaving accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, ^aglorify me in your own presence with the glory ^bthat I had with you ^cbefore the world existed.

6 ^d“I have manifested your name to the people ^ewhom you gave me out of the world. ^fYours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything ^fthat you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them ^gthe words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^hI came from you; and ⁱthey have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. ^jI am not praying for the world but for those ^kwhom you have given me, for ^lthey are yours. 10 ^mAll mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ⁿI am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but ^othey are in the world, and ^pI am coming to you. ^qHoly Father, ^rkeep them in your name, ^swhich you have given me, ^tthat they may be one, ^ueven as we are one. 12 ^vWhile I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^wguarded them, and ^xnot one of them has been lost except ^ythe son of destruction, ^zthat the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now ^aI am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have ^bmy joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 ^cI have given them your word, and ^dthe world has hated them ^ebecause they are not of the world, ^fjust as I am not of the world. 15 I ^gdo not ask that you ^htake them out of the world, but that you ⁱkeep them from ^jthe evil one.¹ 16 ^kThey are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 ^lSanctify them² in the truth; ^myour word is truth. 18 ⁿAs you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And ^ofor their sake ^pI consecrate myself,³ that they also ^qmay be sanctified⁴ in truth.

20 “I do not ^rask for these only, but also for those ^swho will believe in me through their word, 21 ^tthat they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that ^uthey also may be in ^vus, so that the world ^wmay believe that you have sent me. 22 ^xThe glory that you have given me ^yI have given to them, ^tthat they may be one even as we are one, 23 ^zI in them and you in me, ^athat they may become perfectly one, ^bso that the world may know that you sent me and ^cloved them even as ^dyou loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^ewith me ^fwhere I am, ^gto see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^hbefore the foundation of the world. 25 ⁱO righteous Father, even though ^jthe world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 ^kI made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^lwith which you have loved me may be in them, and ^mI in them.”