“Jesus Prays for His Disciples” (John 17:9-19)

Jesus Prays for Our Relationship with other Christians (vv. 9-13) “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” (vv. 9, 11) Eph. 1:4-5; 1 John 5:14,15; Heb. 7:25; Matt. 28:20; Ps. 20:7; John 14:3; 2 Cor. 5:14; Phil. 2:3; Ps. 103:15–17 Jesus Prays for Our Relationship with the World (vv. 14-19) “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.” (vv. 14, 18) 1 Cor. 5:9-10; Num. 11:15; 1 Kings 19:4; Jonah 4:3, 8; Rom. 12:1–2; Acts 1:8; Eph. 5:18; Luke 11:13 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8).”