John 17:6-11

The High Priestly Prayer

6 d "I have manifested your name to the people e whom you gave me out of the world. f Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything f that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them g the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that h I came from you; and i they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. j I am not praying for the world but for those k whom you have given me, for l they are yours. 10 m All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and n I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but o they are in the world, and p I am coming to you. q Holy Father, r keep them in your name, s which you have given me, t that they may be one, u even as we are one.

  1. Cross References
    John 17:26
    I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
    Psalms 22:22
    I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
  2. Cross References
    John 17:2
    Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
  3. Cross References
    John 17:9
    I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
  4. Cross References
    John 17:6
    I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
  5. Cross References
    John 17:14
    I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
    John 15:15
    No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
    John 8:26
    I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.
    John 12:49
    For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment - what to say and what to speak.
  6. Cross References
    John 8:42
    Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
    John 16:27
    For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
  7. Cross References
    John 17:21
    That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
    John 17:25
    O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
    John 11:42
    I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.
    John 16:30
    Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.
  8. Cross References
    John 17:20 - 21
    I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.
  9. Cross References
    John 17:2
    Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
  10. Cross References
    John 17:6
    I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
  11. Cross References
    John 16:15
    All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
  12. Cross References
    2 Thessalonians 1:10
    When he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
  13. Cross References
    John 13:1
    Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
  14. Cross References
    John 14:12
    Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
  15. Cross References
    John 17:25
    O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
  16. Cross References
    John 17:12
    While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
    John 17:15
    I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
    Jude 1:1
    Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
  17. Cross References
    Exodus 23:21
    Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
    Philippians 2:9
    Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.
    Revelation 19:12
    His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.
  18. Cross References
    John 17:21 - 22
    That they may all be one, just as you, Father, ...
    John 10:16
    And I have other sheep that are not of this fol...
    Romans 12:5
    So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and...
    Galatians 3:28
    There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neithe...
    Ephesians 1:10
    As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite al...
    Ephesians 4:4
    There is one body and one Spirit - just as you ...
  19. Cross References
    John 10:30
    I and the Father are one.
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