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John 17:1–5 – Jesus Prays for Glorification

What happens:
Jesus lifts his eyes to heaven and asks the Father to glorify him so he may glorify the Father. He speaks of authority given to him over all people to grant eternal life to those the Father has given him. He defines eternal life as knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. Jesus concludes by asking the Father to glorify him in his presence with the glory he shared before the world existed.

What it means:
Jesus’ request reveals that his sacrificial death and resurrection will display God’s glory and secure eternal life for believers. Knowing God and Christ is both personal relationship and everlasting existence. His pre-existent glory affirms his divine identity and unity with the Father.

John 17:6–19 – Jesus Prays for His Disciples

What happens:
Jesus declares he has revealed the Father’s name to the ones the Father gave him and guarded them in the Father’s name. None has been lost except the one destined to betray. He prays not for the world but for those who believe in him, asking the Father to keep them safe from evil while living in the world. He consecrates them by the truth of God’s word and sends them into the world as he was sent.

What it means:
Believers are given divine revelation and protection through Christ’s intercession. Sanctification comes through God’s truth, preparing disciples for mission in a hostile environment. Jesus’ sending of his followers parallels his own mission and underscores the continuity of God’s redemptive work through his people.

John 17:20–26 – Jesus Prays for All Believers

What happens:
Jesus extends his prayer to all who will believe in him through his disciples’ message. He asks that they may be one as he and the Father are one, so the world may believe the Father sent him. He prays that they share his glory, are perfected in unity, and see the Father’s love. Jesus expresses his desire that believers be with him and behold his glory, affirming that God’s love fills him and is given to his followers.

What it means:
Unity among believers is essential for the world’s recognition of Christ’s divine mission. Shared glory and mutual love reflect the divine community of Father and Son. The promise of future fellowship with Christ and participation in his glory offers hope and motivates devotion to God’s calling.

Application

  • Cultivate a personal, relational knowledge of God and Jesus Christ as the essence of eternal life
  • Trust in Christ’s intercession for your protection and sanctification amid spiritual opposition
  • Embrace the mission of sharing God’s truth with the assurance of divine empowerment and purpose
  • Pursue genuine unity with fellow believers, demonstrating the transformative power of Christ’s love
  • Anticipate future fellowship with Christ in glory as the driving hope for faithful obedience

Bible

1These 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:

2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6I 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.

7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8For 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.

9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11And 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.

12While 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.

13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14I 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.

15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21That 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.

22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23I 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.

24Father, 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.

25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26And 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.

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