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A Prayer for Unity — November 16 [Description]Overview of John 17:1-26:This chapter is often called "The High Priestly Prayer"—Jesus’ longest recorded prayer in Scripture, spoken just before His arrest. It’s a deeply intimate moment where Jesus talks to the Father, giving us a window into His heart.The prayer can be divided into three main parts:1. Verses 1—5: Jesus Prays for Himself - Jesus acknowledges that His time has come to glorify the Father through the cross. - He asks that the Father glorify Him in return, so He can give eternal life to those who believe. -He defines eternal life as knowing God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.2. Verses 6—19: Jesus Prays for His Disciples - Jesus intercedes for His closest followers, thanking God for them and asking for their protection and sanctification. - He prays that they would be kept safe from the evil one, unified, and set apart by God’s truth. - He emphasizes that they are not of the world, but are being sent into it with purpose.3. Verses 20—26: Jesus Prays for All Believers (That Includes Us!) - Jesus prays for everyone who will believe in Him through the disciples’ message—including modern-day Christians. - His deepest desire is unity—that all believers would be one, just as He and the Father are one. - He prays that believers would be filled with God’s love and reflect His glory to the world. 365D 320

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John 17:1-26 365D 320.1

1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 365D 320.2

2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He [a]M shall should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 365D 320.3

3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 365D 320.4

4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 365D 320.5

5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together [b]Lit. alongside with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. 365D 320.6

6 “I have [c]revealed manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 365D 320.7

7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 365D 320.8

8 For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. 365D 320.9

9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 365D 320.10

10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 365D 320.11

11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep [d]NU, M keep them through Your name which You have given Me through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 365D 320.12

12 While I was with them [e]NU omits in the world in the world, I kept them in [f]NU Your name which You gave Me. And I guarded them; (or it;) Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is [g]destroyed lost except the son of [h]destruction perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 365D 320.13

13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 365D 320.14

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. 365D 320.15

15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 365D 320.16

16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 365D 320.17

17 Sanctify [i]Set them apart them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 365D 320.18

18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 365D 320.19

19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. 365D 320.20

20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who [j]NU, M omit will will believe in Me through their word; 365D 320.21

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. 365D 320.22

22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 365D 320.23

23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. 365D 320.24

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. 365D 320.25

25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 365D 320.26

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.” 365D 320.27