Jesus Identifies Himself as The Son Of God
JOHN 17:
1 After Jesus said this, he
looked toward heaven and prayed:" Father, the time has
come.
Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
2For you granted him
authority over all people that he might give eternal life to
all those you
have given him.
3Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom you have sent.
4I have brought you glory on
earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
5 And now, Father, glorify me
in your presence with the glory I had with you
before the world began.
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Jesus turns over his mission to the disciples and, by
extension, to all believers who would follow.
20: "My prayer is
not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their
message, 21:that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am
in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have
sent me. 22: I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one
as we are one: 23: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete
unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you
have loved me. 24: "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me
where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved
me before the creation of the world. 25: "Righteous Father, though the
world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.
26: I
have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that
the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in
them."
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