John 17

This whole chapter is one long prayer.

Another chapter almost entirely in red text!
(half of verse 1 is introductory)

I'm just stunned to learn what Jesus had on his mind
when he announces that "the hour has come".

prayer.

prayer for the people around him -

Joh 17:15
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world,
but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16
They are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy word is truth.

and a prayer for people like me -

Joh 17:20
Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me,
and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one,
even as we are one:

I don't know why that strikes me a certain way
but
I'm happy to be included in an actual prayer
by Jesus himself

we are one.


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