After he had spoken these words, Jesus looked up to heaven and said:
"Father, the hour has come!
Give glory to your Son
that your Son may give glory to you,
inasmuch as you have given him authority over all mankind,
that he may bestow eternal life on those you gave him.
(Eternal life is this:
to know you, the only true God,
and him whom you have sent, Jesus Christ.)
I have given you glory on earth
by finishing the work you gave me to do.
Do you now, Father, give me glory at your side,
a glory I had with you before the world began.
I have made your name known
to those you gave me out of the world.
These men you gave me were yours;
they have kept your word.
Now they realize
that all that you gave me comes from you.
I entrusted to them
the message you entrusted to me,
and they received it.
They have known that in truth I came from you,
they have believed it was you who sent me.
"For these I pray—
not for the world
but for these you have given me,
for they are really yours.
(Just as all that belongs to me is yours,
so all that belongs to you is mine.)
It is in them that I have been glorified.
I am in the world no more,
but these are in the world
as I come to you.
O Father most holy,
protect them with your name which you have given me
[that they may be one, even as we are one].
As long as I was with them,
I guarded them with your name which you gave me.
I kept careful watch,
and not one of them was lost,
none but him who was destined to be lost—
in fulfillment of Scripture.
Now, however, I come to you;
I say all this while I am still in the world
that they may share my joy completely."