Gospel for Today

John 17:6-19, from The Second Testament

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I made your name apparent to humans that you gave me from the Kosmos. They were yours and you gave them to me and they have observed your word. Now they have known that everything that you gave to me is from you because the utterances that you gave me I have given to them and they received and knew truly that I exited from you, and they trusted that you commissioned me.

I ask for them, I do not ask for the Kosmos but for the ones you have given to me because they are yours, and all who are mine are yours and yours mine, and I have been splendored in them. I am no longer in the Kosmos, and they are in the Kosmos, and I come to you.

Devoted Father, keep them in your name that you have given to me so that they may be one just as we [are one]. When I was with them, I was keeping them in your name that you have given to me, and I guarded, and not one of them is destroyed except Destruction’s son—so that the writing may be filled out.

Now I come to you and I speak these things in the Kosmos so they may have my joy filled out in them. I have given your word to them, and the Kosmos hated them because they are not of the Kosmos just as I am not of the Kosmos. I do not ask that you lift them from the Kosmos but that you keep them from the Evil One. They are not from the Kosmos just as I am not from the Kosmos.

Devote them in the Truth. Your word is the Truth. Just as you commissioned me into the Kosmos, so I commissioned them into the Kosmos. I devote myself for them so they may also be devoted in Truth.