Jesus prayed for us

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There’s this one passage in John’s gospel that always blows my mind. Okay, there are lots of them that do that, but there’s one in particular that does it in a completely different way than all the others. In John 17, Jesus prayer for his disciples. He prayed that those who were with him in the upper room would be protected from the evil one as they remain in the world but not of it. That they would be sanctified in and by the truth, which is God’s Word.

And then, in John 17:20-23, Jesus shi...