Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have glorified you on earth by[a] completing the work that you have given me to do.[b] And now, Father, you glorify me at your side[c] with the glory that I had at your side[d] before the world existed.

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:4 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“completing”) which is understood as means
  2. John 17:4 Literally “that I may do it”
  3. John 17:5 Literally “by the side of yourself”
  4. John 17:5 Literally “by the side of you”