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Gospel Reading - The unity of the generations

⁶“I have told these men all about you. They were in the world, but then you gave them to me. Actually, they were always yours, and you gave them to me; and they have obeyed you.

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¹⁸As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world, ¹⁹and I consecrate myself to meet their need for growth in truth and holiness.

²⁰“I am not praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me because of the testimony of these. ²¹My prayer for all of them is that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father — that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.

²²“I have given them the glory you gave me — the glorious unity of being one, as we are — ²³I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one — so that the world will know you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me. ²⁴Father, I want them with me — these you’ve given me — so that they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me before the world began!