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Meditation

Reader,

This morning, we are copying out the third part of what is known as Jesus' High Priestly Prayer found in John 17.

It is the longest recorded prayer of Jesus in any of the Gospels. Jesus prays this after He finishes His final instructions to the disciples and before He is betrayed, arrested, and crucified.

First, He prays a personal prayer for His glorification, then He prays for His disciples, and He closes the prayer by praying for all believers. We copied out the first two parts of this prayer in an earlier series of Bible Copy Club, so if you'd like to copy out the whole prayer, you can find the passage and the meditation here.

I hope that as you copy this out today, you'll have a profound appreciation that Jesus is literally interceding for you in this prayer. This prayer is a prediction and celebration of the outcome of your salvation.

While the message is simple, stylistically, the passage is complex. Jesus prays that you, He, and the Father would be one.

Take time to copy this short passage slowly and let that truth sink in.

Today's text is John 17:20-26

Jesus Prays for All Believers

²⁰ “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— ²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

²⁴ “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

²⁵ “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ²⁶ I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

Encouragement

Today's passage is short but profound, and I hope you'll agree, well worth taking time over.

Jesus closed the gap between us and God when He died on the cross. A closeness we now enjoy with Him pre-figured in this prayer.

Andy

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