The Prayer of Jesus (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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If you’re a believer, did you know that Jesus has prayed for you? Hear a brand-new series in which we’ll examine the life-changing High Priestly Prayer Jesus prayed at His last Passover meal with His disciples. That’s on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Do you realize that if you're a believer before Jesus went to the cross, he prayed for you? |
| 0:33.1 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg begins a brand new series in which he'll walk us through |
| 0:38.2 | the life-changing high-prie priestly prayer that Jesus prayed at his last Passover meal with his |
| 0:45.5 | disciples. |
| 0:51.9 | I invite you to turn with me to the Gospel of John and to the 17th chapter. |
| 1:00.0 | And follow along as I read from there. |
| 1:05.0 | When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come, |
| 1:13.6 | glorify your son, that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all |
| 1:21.6 | flesh to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life that they know you, the |
| 1:31.0 | only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished |
| 1:39.2 | the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before |
| 1:48.7 | the world existed. |
| 1:51.1 | I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. |
| 1:56.0 | Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you |
| 2:03.2 | have given me is from you, for I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received |
| 2:09.7 | them, and have come to know in truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent |
| 2:15.4 | me. I am praying for them. |
| 2:18.9 | I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. |
| 2:24.7 | All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. |
| 2:29.6 | And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you, Holy Father, keep |
| 2:35.3 | them in your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. |
| 2:42.2 | While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you've given me. I have guarded them, |
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