“IV. Yeshua prays with and for his disciples in the Kidron valley on their way to Gethsemane
This prayer is in response to his disciples’ acknowledgement that he was sent by the Father.
Matthew — Mark — Luke — John 17:1-26
John 17:1 These words Yeshua spoke as he lifted up his eyes to heaven: “Father, the hour is come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you. 2 You have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him. 3 This is life eternal, that they might know you, the one true Elohim, and Yeshua the Messiah, whom you have sent. 4 I have glorified you on the earth. I have finished the work which you gave me to do. 5 Now, O Father, glorify me with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. 6 I have declared your name to the men you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you. 8 I have given to them the words which you gave to me; and they have received them, and they know for a surety that I came out from you, and they believe that you sent me. 9 I pray for them now. I do not pray for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I come to you, Holy Father, keep those you have given me through your own name, that they may be one, as we are one. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those who you gave to me I have kept, and none of them are lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to you, and these things I speak in this world, so that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that you would take them out of the world, but that you would keep them from evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through your truth – your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 I have sanctified myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 I do not pray only for these alone, but for those also who shall believe in me through their word, 21 that they all may be one. As you, Father, are in me, and I in you, I pray that they also may be one in us and that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one. 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. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am so that they may behold my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these now know that you have sent me. 26 I have declared your name to them, and will declare it so that the love wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Excerpt From: Michael J. Rood. “The Chronological Gospels.