19/02/2026
THE HIGH PRIEST PRAYER
John 17 the High Priest Prayer. I was blown away by the
prayer and commented what I thought about it with these lines
(-as my reaction-)
The High Priestly Prayer
“When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes
to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your
Son that the Son may glorify you (-He speaks as if He speaks
about another person then Him here, here you can see that
He was both human and God, two in one, man and God-)
since you have given him authority over all flesh, (-here you
see that He has the power to do as He pleases- ) to give eternal
life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life,
that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ (-
He talks about Himself like this!- ) whom you have sent. I
glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that
you gave me to do.
( - here you can see that He knew from the beginning, from
His birth, what His task, duty and purpose was-)
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that
I had with you before the world existed. (- here you can see
that He was there at the creation of earth, He is and was in eternity with God!-) “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. (- here He talks about us, the believers, His followers-) Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. (that’s us, His church, His people-). All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. (- do you see and feel that? He tells us that we are HIS!-)
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to
you. (- here Jesus declares He is literally on earth and not in heaven, but that He’s coming home soon-), Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. (- here He tells us to be one, to be united, we are one family, one with each other united in God!-)
While I was with them, I kept them in your name,which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, (- Jude-) that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. (- here He wants us to be joyful, because we are HIS!-) 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.(- here you see that
we should not be worldly but doing all things heavenly-).
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. (- here He’s asking for our protection against the devil and his deceiving-) They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world,
so I have sent them into the world. (- that’s our task that He gave us, to spread the Word, evangelize -).
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in
truth. “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, (- here you see how we as a church must be, all in one, no gossiping and no disagreements, but politely correcting and teaching one another-) so that the world may know that you sent me
and loved them even as you loved me.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me (- He wants us to be with Him and God our Father) because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them
your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”” (-how beautiful He ends with Love, which was the biggest command, to love our neighbors, friends, enemies as ourselves.-)
https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.17.26.ESV
I can keep on talking and comparing about this, wow! Such
a beautiful passage!