Gospel According to John (MLV)
John 17)
17:1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that the son may glorify you*: 17:2 just-as you gave him authority over all flesh, that to all whom you have given him, he might give to them eternal life. 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they should know you the only true God and him whom you did send, even Jesus Christ. 17:4 I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work which you have given me to do. 17:5 And now, Father, you glorify me with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was. 17:6 I manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: they were yours and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word. 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me, are from you*: 17:8 because the words which you gave me I have given to them; and they received them and truly knew that I came forth from you and they believed that you sent me.
17:9 I <3>pray concerning them: I do not <3>pray concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given to me; because they are yours: 17:10 and all things that are mine are yours and yours are mine and I am glorified in them. 17:11 And I am no more in the world and these are in the world and I come to you*. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given me, that they may be one, just-as we are. 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name which you have given me and I guarded them and not one out of them perished, except the son of destruction; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 17:13 But now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 17:14 I have given them your word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just-as I am not of the world. 17:15 I <3>pray not that you should take them from the world, but that you should keep them from the Evil One. 17:16 They are not of the world just-as I am not of the world. 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth: your word is truth. 17:18 As you did send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world. 17:19 And I sanctify myself on behalf of them, that they themselves may also be sanctified in truth. 17:20 Neither concerning these only do I <3>pray, but concerning those also who believe in me through their word; 17:21 that they may all be one; as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that you did send me. 17:22 And the glory which you have given me I have given to them; that they may be one, just-as we are one; 17:23 I in them and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you did send me and loved* them, just-as you loved* me. 17:24 Father, I wish that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: because you loved* me before the foundation of the world. 17:25 O righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you; and these knew that you did send me; 17:26 and I made known to them your name and will make it known; that the love* with which you loved* me may be in them and I in them.
<3> 17:9, 15, 20, --- Gr. request.
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix, copyright 1987, 1999, 2000 by G. Allen Walker for the New Testament Committee.