# John 17.2-6

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**Book:** [John](/codex/john/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 1. These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, <span class="rl-speech">Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the son may glorify thee:</span>
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> **2. <span class="rl-speech">even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.</span> 4. <span class="rl-speech">I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.</span> 5. <span class="rl-speech">And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.</span> 6. <span class="rl-speech">I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.</span>**
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> 7. <span class="rl-speech">Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:</span> 8. <span class="rl-speech">for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.</span> (John 17:1-8, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 1. Jesus said these things, <span class="rl-speech">and lifting up his eyes to heaven,</span> he said, <span class="rl-speech">“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;</span>
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> **2. <span class="rl-speech">even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.</span> 4. <span class="rl-speech">I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.</span> 5. <span class="rl-speech">Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.</span> 6. <span class="rl-speech">I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.</span>**
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> 7. <span class="rl-speech">Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,</span> 8. <span class="rl-speech">for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.</span> (John 17:1-8, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 1. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, <span class="rl-speech">Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:</span>
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> **2. <span class="rl-speech">As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.</span> 4. <span class="rl-speech">I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.</span> 5. <span class="rl-speech">And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.</span> 6. <span class="rl-speech">I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.</span>**
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> 7. <span class="rl-speech">Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.</span> 8. <span class="rl-speech">For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.</span> (John 17:1-8, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 1. These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said, <span class="rl-speech">'Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,</span>
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> **2. <span class="rl-speech">according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that, all that Thou hast given to him, he may give to them life age-during;</span> 3. <span class="rl-speech">and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send, Jesus Christ;</span> 4. <span class="rl-speech">I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do [it].</span> 5. <span class="rl-speech">'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;</span> 6. <span class="rl-speech">I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;</span>**
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> 7. <span class="rl-speech">now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,</span> 8. <span class="rl-speech">because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.</span> (John 17:1-8, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
- **Location:** _TBD_
- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

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## Quoted in

**Arguments and defeaters:**

- [Anointing Implies Subordination Objection Defeater](/codex/anointing-implies-subordination-objection-defeater/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Argument from Purpose Meaning and Hope](/codex/argument-from-purpose-meaning-and-hope/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Christian God is the Only True God](/codex/christian-god-is-the-only-true-god/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/), [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Cumulative Case for the Deity of Christ](/codex/cumulative-case-for-the-deity-of-christ/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Cursed Messiah Objection Defeater](/codex/cursed-messiah-objection-defeater/), via [John 17.1-5](/codex/john-17-1-5/)
- [Free Will Argument from Love](/codex/free-will-argument-from-love/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [God Created Me Knowing I Would Reject Him Objection Defeater](/codex/god-created-me-knowing-i-would-reject-him-objection-defeater/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Jesus Has a God Therefore Not God Objection Defeater](/codex/jesus-has-a-god-therefore-not-god-objection-defeater/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Muhammad as Paraclete Refutation](/codex/muhammad-as-paraclete-refutation/), via [John 17.4-5](/codex/john-17-4-5/)
- [Necessary Being is an Intelligent Mind](/codex/necessary-being-is-an-intelligent-mind/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Pragmatic Argument](/codex/pragmatic-argument/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Resurrection Implies Christian Theism](/codex/resurrection-implies-christian-theism/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Tree of Knowledge Objection Defeater](/codex/tree-of-knowledge-objection-defeater/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Trinity Coherence Defense (Latin-Thomist)](/codex/trinity-coherence-defense-latin-thomist/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Unitarian Oneness Binitarian Objection Defeater](/codex/unitarian-oneness-binitarian-objection-defeater/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/), [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)

**Concepts:**

- [Arianism](/codex/arianism/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Christ is God](/codex/christ-is-god/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Christ Was Made (Misread Proof-Texts)](/codex/christ-was-made-misread-proof-texts/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/), [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Christian Muslim Defender](/codex/christian-muslim-defender/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/), [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Christianity](/codex/christianity/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Christs Deity](/codex/christs-deity/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Covenant Theology](/codex/covenant-theology/)
- [Father-Son Authority Asymmetry](/codex/father-son-authority-asymmetry/), via [John 17.2](/codex/john-17-2/), [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Jesus Said](/codex/jesus-said/), via [John 17](/codex/john-17/)
- [Lesson 2.4, Christology in One Lesson](/codex/lesson-2-4-christology-in-one-lesson/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Monotheism](/codex/monotheism/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Muslim Objections to the Divinity of Christ](/codex/muslim-objections-to-the-divinity-of-christ/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Old Testament Witness to the Deity of Christ](/codex/old-testament-witness-to-the-deity-of-christ/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Oneness Pentecostalism](/codex/oneness-pentecostalism/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Social Trinitarianism](/codex/social-trinitarianism/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Tree of Knowledge Objection](/codex/tree-of-knowledge-objection/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [Trinity](/codex/trinity/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Trinity Love-Overflow Argument](/codex/trinity-love-overflow-argument/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Trinity vs Oneness vs Modalism vs Arianism](/codex/trinity-vs-oneness-vs-modalism-vs-arianism/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/), [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [Young's Literal Translation](/codex/youngs-literal-translation/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)

**People:**

- [John the Apostle](/codex/john-the-apostle/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)

**Lexicon:**

- [G0166 - aionios](/codex/g0166-aionios/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [G1097 - ginosko](/codex/g1097-ginosko/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [G1391 - doxa](/codex/g1391-doxa/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [G2222 - zoe](/codex/g2222-zoe/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [G2316 - theos](/codex/g2316-theos/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [G2889 - kosmos](/codex/g2889-kosmos/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [G3686 - onoma](/codex/g3686-onoma/), via [John 17.6](/codex/john-17-6/)
- [G3962 - pater](/codex/g3962-pater/), via [John 17.5](/codex/john-17-5/)
- [G4561 - sarx](/codex/g4561-sarx/), via [John 17.2](/codex/john-17-2/)
- [H3045 - yada](/codex/h3045-yada/), via [John 17.3](/codex/john-17-3/)
- [H8034 - shem](/codex/h8034-shem/), via [John 17.6](/codex/john-17-6/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.
