John 17:25

Translations

Modern

Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

Traditional

O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Literal

Righteous Father, although the world did not know You, yet I knew You, and these knew that You sent Me.

Latin

Pater juste, mundus te non cognovit, ego autem te cognovi: et hi cognoverunt, quia tu me misisti.

Interlinear

Greek

English

Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

Notes

John 17:1–26

This chapter contains the longest prayer of Jesus. People often refer to it as the "high priestly prayer." The prayer shows the deepest concerns and purposes of Jesus.

This prayer concludes his last words that began at 13:31. Jesus expressed his own concerns to his Father (17:1–8). He then expressed concerns for the church and its future (17:9–26).

Theme notes and profiles

Jesus’ Final Night Jesus’ Prayers The World

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John 17:11
I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
John 17:8
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
John 7:29
…but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
John 16:27
For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
John 15:21
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
Hebrews 8:11
No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
John 8:55
You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
John 5:19–20
So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
John 10:15
…just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
Luke 10:22
All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
John 17:23
I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

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