---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: John from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 17
verse_count: 26
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), John, chap. 17, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# John 17

*Christ prayeth to his Father to glorify him To keep his apostles in unity and truth, and all other believers, with him.*

**1** These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee;
**2** As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
**3** And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
**4** I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
**5** And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
**6** I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
**7** Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
**8** For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
**9** I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
**10** And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
**11** And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
**12** While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
**13** And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
**14** I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because
**15** I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
**16** They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
**17** Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
**18** As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
**19** And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
**20** Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
**21** That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
**22** And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
**23** I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
**24** Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
**25** O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
**26** And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.