Modern Literal Version
[John 17]


     17:1 Jesus spoke these things, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that* your Son may also glorify you; 17:2 just-as you gave him authority over all flesh, that* to all whom you have given him, he will give eternal life to them. 17:3 And this is eternal life, that* they should know you, the only true God, and Jesus as the Christ, whom you did send. 17:4 I glorified you upon the earth. I accomplished the work which you have given me that* I should be doing. 17:5 And now, Father, you glorify me with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was. 17:6 I manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.17:7 Now they have known that all things, as many things as you have given me, are from you, 17:8because the words which you gave me I have given to them, and they received them and do truly know that I came forth from you and they believed that you sent me.

     17:9 I am requesting concerning them. I am not requesting concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given to me, because they are yours. 17:10 And all things that are mine are yours and yours are mine and I am glorified in them. 17:11 And I am no more in the world and these are in the world and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you have given me, that* they may be one, just-as we are one. 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in your name whom you have given me. I guarded them and not one out of them perished, except the son of destruction; in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled.17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world, that* they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 17:14 I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of* the world, just-as I am not of* the world.

     17:15 I am not requesting that* you should take them from the world, but that* you should keep them from the evil one. 17:16 They are not of* the world just-as I am not of* the world. 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 17:18 As you did send me into the world, I also sent them into the world. 17:19 And I sanctify myself on behalf of them, that* they themselves may also have been sanctified in truth.

     17:20 I am not requesting concerning these only, but concerning those who also believe in me through their word; 17:21 that* they may all be one; like you, Father, are in me and I in you, that*they may also be one in us; that* the world may believe that you did send me. 17:22 And the glory which you have given me I have given to them; that* they may be one, just-as we are one; 17:23 I in them and you in me, that* they may have been perfected into one and that* the world may know that you did send me and you loved* them, just-as you loved* me. 17:24 Father, I wish that* they, whom you have given me, may also be with me where I am, that* they may view my glory, which you gave me, because you loved* me before the conception of the world. 17:25 O righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you did send me; 17:26 and I made known to them your name and will make it known; that* the love* with which you loved*me may be in them and I in them.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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