Scripture notes for March 29, 2020 (as per the preaching notes)

John 17:1-26

1After Jesus said this, he looked

toward heaven and prayed:

2"Father, the time has come. Glorify

your Son, so that your Son may glorify you.

For you granted him authority over all

people so that he might give eternal life to

all those you have given him.

3Now this is eternal life: that they may

know you, the only true God, and Jesus

Christ, whom you have sent.

4I have brought you glory on earth by

completing the work you gave me to do.

5And now, Father, glorify me in your

presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

6"I have revealed you to those whom

you gave me out of the world. They

were yours; you gave them to me and

they have obeyed your word.

7Now they know that everything you

have given me comes from you.

8For 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.

9I pray for them. I am not praying for the

world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.

10All I have is yours, and all you have is

mine. And glory has come to me through them.

11I 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 your name--the

name you gave me--so that they may be

one as we are one.

12While I was with them, I protected

them and kept them safe by 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.

14I 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.

15My prayer is not that you take them

out of the world but that you protect

them from the evil one.

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

17Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

18As you sent me into the world, I have

sent them into the world.

19For them I sanctify myself, that they

too may be truly sanctified.

20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray

also for those who will believe in me through their message,

21that 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.

22I have given them the glory that you

gave me, that they may be one as we are one:

23I in them and you in me. May they be

brought to complete unity to let the

world 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.

26I have made you 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."