“Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 17 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.