Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 “I have revealed you [Greek your name] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of [Or Father, keep them faithful to] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by [Or kept them faithful to ] that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by [Or them to live in accordance with] the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you [Greek your name] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
NOTES:
17:1–26 Climax of the last discourse(s). Since the sixteenth
century, this chapter has been called the “high priestly prayer” of Jesus. He
speaks as intercessor, with words addressed directly to the Father and not to
the disciples, who supposedly only overhear. Yet the prayer is one of petition,
for immediate (Jn 17:6–19) and future (Jn 17:20–21) disciples. Many phrases
reminiscent of the Lord’s Prayer occur. Although still in the world (Jn 17:13),
Jesus looks on his earthly ministry as a thing of the past (Jn 17:4, 12).
Whereas Jesus has up to this time stated that the disciples could follow him
(Jn 13:33, 36), now he wishes them to be with him in union with the Father (Jn
17:12–14).
17:1 The action of looking up to heaven and the address
Father are typical of Jesus at prayer; cf. Jn 11:41 and Lk 11:2.
17:2 Another possible interpretation is to treat the first
line of the verse as parenthetical and the second as an appositive to the
clause that ends v 1: so that your son may glorify you (just as…all people), so
that he may give eternal life….
17:3 This verse was clearly added in the editing of the
gospel as a reflection on the preceding verse; Jesus nowhere else refers to himself
as Jesus Christ.
17:6 I revealed your name: perhaps the name I AM; cf. Jn
8:24, 28, 58; 13:19.
17:15 Note the resemblance to the petition of the Lord’s
Prayer, “deliver us from the evil one.” Both probably refer to the devil rather
than to abstract evil.
17:24 Where I am: Jesus prays for the believers ultimately
to join him in heaven. Then they will not see his glory as in a mirror but
clearly (2 Cor 3:18; 1 Jn 3:2).
17:26 I will make it known: through the Advocate.
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