John 17

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; ✦ ²even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. ✦ ³This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. ✦ ⁴I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. ✦ ⁵Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. ✦ ⁶I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. ✦ ⁷Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, ✦ ⁸for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. ✦ ⁹I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. ✦ ¹⁰All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. ✦ ¹¹I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. ✦ ¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ✦ ¹³But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. ✦ ¹⁴I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ✦ ¹⁵I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. ✦ ¹⁶They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. ✦ ¹⁷Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. ✦ ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. ✦ ¹⁹For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. ✦ ²⁰Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, ✦ ²¹that they may all be one; even 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. ✦ ²²The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; ✦ ²³I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. ✦ ²⁴Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. ✦ ²⁵Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. ✦ ²⁶I 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.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

John 17 ·57 John 14 ·18 John 6 ·15 John 16 ·15 John 15 ·14 John 10 ·13 John 8 ·13 1 Jn 5 ·10

Christ at the center

John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.

How John 17 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

★ Start hereDocumentaryFollowing the MessiahAppian Media · Free · evangelical
A free, beautifully shot 10-part series walking the lands of Jesus' life — Bethlehem, Galilee, Jerusalem, and more.
★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
Free animated overviews of every book of the Bible, plus themes and Hebrew/Greek word studies — the best visual on-ramp to any book. (Biblical-theology, broadly evangelical, not distinctly Reformed.)
★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical
A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.
DocumentaryHolyLandSiteHolyLandSite · Free · evangelical
Free on-location videos tying biblical events to the actual sites in Israel — the Temple Mount, Galilee, Capernaum, and more.
ApologeticsCold-Case Christianity (J. Warner Wallace)J. Warner Wallace · Free · evangelical
A cold-case homicide detective examines the Gospels' reliability — forensic faith for skeptics and seekers.

Pastoral

★ Start hereSermonMLJ Trust — Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermonsMartyn Lloyd-Jones · Free · reformed
1,600+ free sermons from "the Doctor," including landmark verse-by-verse series (Romans, John, Ephesians, Acts) — a gold standard of expository preaching.
SermonGrace to You — John MacArthurJohn MacArthur · Free · reformed
Decades of careful verse-by-verse expository sermons, especially through the New Testament. (MacArthur, d. 2025; archive remains free.)
SermonGospel in Life — Tim KellerTim Keller · Free · reformed
Tim Keller's gospel-centered preaching — sermons stream free (the complete downloadable archive is paid).
ArticleRecommended NT commentaries (9Marks / Schreiner)Thomas R. Schreiner · Free · reformed
A trusted pastor-oriented guide to the best commentary on each New Testament book.
SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.
VideoVerse By Verse Ministry InternationalVerse By Verse Ministry Int'l · Free · evangelical
In-depth, verse-by-verse expository teaching book-by-book — strong for working straight through a whole New Testament book.
VideoLook at the Book — John PiperJohn Piper · Free · reformed
Watch Piper trace the logic of a passage phrase by phrase on screen — a model of close reading.

Seminary

★ Start hereApologeticsGary Habermas — the resurrectionGary Habermas · Free · evangelical
130+ free videos and lectures from the scholar behind the "minimal facts" method — the start-here on the historical evidence for the resurrection. (Only his books are paid.)
★ Start hereCommentaryThe Gospel According to John (Pillar NT Commentary)D. A. Carson · ~720 pp · Paid · reformed
The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.

Commentaries & study tools

VideoBibleProject — John videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
VideoWatch teaching on John 17YouTube · Lay · Free
Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.
CommentaryEnduring Word — John 17David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on JohnMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — John 17Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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