John 17

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹Jesus 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, ✦ ²as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. ✦ ³And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. ✦ ⁴I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. ✦ ⁵And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. ✦ ⁶“I have 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. ✦ ⁷Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. ✦ ⁸For 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. ✦ ⁹“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. ✦ ¹⁰And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. ✦ ¹¹Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. ✦ ¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ✦ ¹³But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. ✦ ¹⁴I 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. ✦ ¹⁵I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. ✦ ¹⁶They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ✦ ¹⁷Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. ✦ ¹⁸As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. ✦ ¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. ✦ ²⁰“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; ✦ ²¹that 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. ✦ ²²And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: ✦ ²³I 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. ✦ 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. ✦ ²⁵O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. ✦ ²⁶And 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.” ✦

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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.)
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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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