Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're
taking this journey together to read the Bible
in a year. Today's reading is from the Gospel
of John, Chapter 17. Jesus 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, as you have given him
authority over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as you have given him.
And this is eternal life, that they may know
you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
you have sent. I have glorified you on the earth.
I have finished the work which you have given
me to do. And now, O Father, glorify me together
with yourself, with the glory which I had with
you before the world was. 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. Now they have
known that all things which you have given me
are from you. For 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. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world,
but for those whom you have given me, for they
are yours, and all mine are yours, and yours
are mine, and I am glorified in them. Now 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. While 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. But now I come
to you, and these things I speak in the world,
that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I 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. I do not pray
that you should take them out of the world, but
that you should keep them from the evil one.
They are not of the world, just as I am not of
the world. Sanctify them by your truth. Your
word is truth. As you sent me into the world,
I also have sent them into the world. And for
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also
may be sanctified by the truth. I do not pray
for these alone, but also for those who will
believe in me through their word, that 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, and the glory
which you gave me I have given them, that they
may be one just as we are one, 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.
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. O righteous
Father, the world has not known you, but I have
known you, and these have known that you sent
me, and 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. I hope
you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did,
and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow
to continue on our journey. God bless you and
have a great day.