And Jesus Said...

   John, chapter 17

    With his crucifixion hours away, at supper with his disciples, Jesus prayed to the Father:

v. 2  You have given him (Jesus himself) authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as you have given Him.

v. 3  And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 

v. 13  But now I come to You, and these things I speak, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

v. 14  I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world...

v. 15  I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one. 

v. 18  As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 

v. 20  I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word.

v. 21  that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

v. 24  Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold my glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

v. 26  And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them and I in them.