15. I am not asking you to take them out of the world but to keep them safe from the Evil One.
16. They don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.
17. Make them ready for your service through your truth; your teaching is truth.
18. I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world.
19. For their sake, I am making myself ready to serve so that they can be ready for their service of the truth.
20. “I pray for these followers, but I am also praying for all those who will believe in me because of their teaching.
21. Father, I pray that they can be one. As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me.
22. I have given these people the glory that you gave me so that they can be one, just as you and I are one.