Scripture Reading Sunday, May 17, 2015

Scripture Reading Sunday, May 17, 2015 Jim DePoy

Our Gospel Lesson comes from John 17:6-19

”I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the

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world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept

your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me is from

you; 8

for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they

have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they

have believed that you sent me. 9

asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave

me, because they are yours. 10All mine are yours, and yours are mine;

and I have been glorified in them.

11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I

am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you

have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12While I was

with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I

guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to

be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming

to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my

joy made complete in themselves. 14I have given them your word, and

the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just

as I do not belong to the world. 15I am not asking you to take them out

of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16They do

not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you have sent me

into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes

I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

I am asking on their behalf; I am not

THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD!