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# John 17

John 17 is chapter 17 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 26 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ's prayer for his disciples.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 17 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Jesus said these things, and then, lifting up his eyes toward heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has arrived: glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you,
2. just as you have given authority over all flesh to him, so that he may give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.
3. And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4. I have glorified you on earth. I have completed the work that you gave me to accomplish.
5. And now Father, glorify me within yourself, with the glory that I had with you before the world ever was.
6. I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given to me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me. And they have kept your word.
7. Now they realize that all the things that you have given me are from you.
8. For I have given them the words that you gave to me. And they have accepted these words, and they have truly understood that I went forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
9. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given to me. For they are yours.
10. And all that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine, and I am glorified in this.
11. And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.
12. While I was with them, I preserved them in your name. I have guarded those whom you have given to me, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
13. And now I am coming to you. But I am speaking these things in the world, so that they may have the fullness of my joy within themselves.
14. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world.
15. I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.
16. They are not of the world, just as I also am not of the world.
17. Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.
18. Just as you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19. And it is for them that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified in truth.
20. But I am not praying for them only, but also for those who through their word shall believe in me.
21. So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22. And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we also are one.
23. I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me.
24. Father, I will that where I am, those whom you have given to me may also be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me. For you loved me before the founding of the world.
25. Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you sent me.
26. And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.”

## John 17 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæc locutus est Jesus: et sublevatis oculis in cælum, dixit: Pater, venit hora: clarifica Filium tuum, ut Filius tuus clarificet te:
2. sicut dedisti ei potestatem omnis carnis, ut omne, quod dedisti ei, det eis vitam æternam.
3. Hæc est autem vita æterna: ut cognoscant te, solum Deum verum, et quem misisti Jesum Christum.
4. Ego te clarificavi super terram: opus consummavi, quod dedisti mihi ut faciam:
5. et nunc clarifica me tu, Pater, apud temetipsum, claritate quam habui, priusquam mundus esset, apud te.
6. Manifestavi nomen tuum hominibus, quos dedisti mihi de mundo: tui erant, et mihi eos dedisti: et sermonem tuum servaverunt.
7. Nunc cognoverunt quia omnia quæ dedisti mihi, abs te sunt:
8. quia verba quæ dedisti mihi, dedi eis: et ipsi acceperunt, et cognoverunt vere quia a te exivi, et crediderunt quia tu me misisti.
9. Ego pro eis rogo; non pro mundo rogo, sed pro his quos dedisti mihi: quia tui sunt:
10. et mea omnia tua sunt, et tua mea sunt: et clarificatus sum in eis.
11. Et jam non sum in mundo, et hi in mundo sunt, et ego ad te venio. Pater sancte, serva eos in nomine tuo, quos dedisti mihi: ut sint unum, sicut et nos.
12. Cum essem cum eis, ego servabam eos in nomine tuo. Quos dedisti mihi, custodivi: et nemo ex eis periit, nisi filius perditionis, ut Scriptura impleatur.
13. Nunc autem ad te venio: et hæc loquor in mundo, ut habeant gaudium meum impletum in semetipsis.
14. Ego dedi eis sermonem tuum, et mundus eos odio habuit, quia non sunt de mundo, sicut et ego non sum de mundo.
15. Non rogo ut tollas eos de mundo, sed ut serves eos a malo.
16. De mundo non sunt, sicut et ego non sum de mundo.
17. Sanctifica eos in veritate. Sermo tuus veritas est.
18. Sicut tu me misisti in mundum, et ego misi eos in mundum:
19. et pro eis ego sanctifico meipsum: ut sint et ipsi sanctificati in veritate.
20. Non pro eis autem rogo tantum, sed et pro eis qui credituri sunt per verbum eorum in me:
21. ut omnes unum sint, sicut tu Pater in me, et ego in te, ut et ipsi in nobis unum sint: ut credat mundus, quia tu me misisti.
22. Et ego claritatem, quam dedisti mihi, dedi eis: ut sint unum, sicut et nos unum sumus.
23. Ego in eis, et tu in me: ut sint consummati in unum: et cognoscat mundus quia tu me misisti, et dilexisti eos, sicut et me dilexisti.
24. Pater, quos dedisti mihi, volo ut ubi sum ego, et illi sint mecum: ut videant claritatem meam, quam dedisti mihi: quia dilexisti me ante constitutionem mundi.
25. Pater juste, mundus te non cognovit, ego autem te cognovi: et hi cognoverunt, quia tu me misisti.
26. Et notum feci eis nomen tuum, et notum faciam: ut dilectio, qua dilexisti me, in ipsis sit, et ego in ipsis.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 730: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1085: Christ's Work in the Liturgy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2604: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2746: The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2750: The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1996: Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 217: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1721: Christian Beatitude ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2751: The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 767: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1069: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 589: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2812: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2765: The Lord's Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2815: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2849: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2747: The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2749: The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2850: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2466: Living in the Truth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2821: "Thy Kingdom Come" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 858: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 611: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 820: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 260: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 877: Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 690: The Joint Mission of the Son and the Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 729: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.” — St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, IV.20.7, c. 180 (On this theme: verse 3)
- “Let us hold on to the words, the life, the teaching and the holy Gospel of Him who humbled Himself to ask His Father for us.” — St. Francis of Assisi, Earlier Rule, ch. 22, 1221 (On this theme: verse 9)
- “My deepest me is God.” — St. Catherine of Genoa, popular saying, source unconfirmed (Attributed: verse 23)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, May 11, 2027: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter — Gospel, John 17:1-11a
- Wed, May 12, 2027: Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter — Alleluia, John 17:17b, 17a; Gospel, John 17:11b-19
- Thu, May 13, 2027: Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter — Alleluia, John 17:21; Gospel, John 17:20-26
- Fri, May 21, 2027: Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, John 17:17b, 17a

9 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).