john 17

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Joh 17:1-26 chiastic structure:

1a.1) Joh 17:1-5, Father, Glorify Your Son together with Yourself with the glory I had with You before the world was;

1a) Joh 17:1a, Jesus: Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son;
1b) Joh 17:1b, That Your Son also may glorify You;
1c) Joh 17:2a, As You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life;
central axis) Joh 17:2b, To as many as You have given Him;
2c) Joh 17:3, And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent;
2b) Joh 17:4, I have glorified You on the earth: I have finished the work which You have given Me to do;
2a) Joh 17:5, And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was;

1a.2.a) Joh 17:6a, I have manifested Your name;

1a.2.b) Joh 17:6b-8, To the men whom You have given Me out of the world/ they have believed that You sent Me;

1b) Joh 17:9-13, I pray for the men whom You have given Me;

1a) Joh 17:9-11a, I pray for them: I am glorified in them + I am no longer in the world but they are in the world;
1b) Joh 17:11b, And I come to You;
1c) Joh 17:11c, Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me;
central axis) Joh 17:11d, That they may be one as We are;
2c) Joh 17:12, I kept them in Your name/ none is lost but the son of perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled;
2b) Joh 17:13a, But now I come to You;
2a) Joh 17:13b, And these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves;

1c) Joh 17:14a, I have given them Your word;

1d) Joh 17:14b, The world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world;

central axis) Joh 17:15, “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one;”

2d) Joh 17:16, They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world;

2c) Joh 17:17-19, Sanctify them by Your truth – Your word/ I sent them into the world/ I sanctify Myself that they may be sanctified by the truth;

2b) Joh 17:20-23b, I pray also for those who will believe in Me through their word;

1a.1) Joh 17:20-21a, I pray that they all may be one as We are, that they may be one in Us;
1a.2) Joh 17:21b, That the world may believe that You sent Me;
central axis) Joh 17:22a, And the glory which You gave Me I have given them;
2a.1) Joh 17:22b-23a, That they may be one just as We are one: that they may be made perfect in one;
2a.2) Joh 17:23b, And that the world may know that You have sent Me;

2a) Joh 17:23c-26, That they may behold My glory/ they know that You sent Me/ I have declared to them Your name;

intro) Joh 17:23c, And have loved them as You have loved Me;

2a.1) Joh 17:24, Let those whom You gave Me be with Me, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me;
2a.2.b) Joh 17:25, The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;
2a.2.a) Joh 17:26a, And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it;

conclusion) Joh 17:26b, That the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.