• John 17:24
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 24 Πατήρ, Father, ὃ which δέδωκάς you have given μοι, to me, θέλω I am willing ἵνα in order that ὅπου where εἰμὶ am ἐγὼ I κἀκεῖνοι also those ὦσιν may be μετ’ with ἐμοῦ, me, ἵνα in order that θεωρῶσιν they may behold τὴν the δόξαν glory τὴν the ἐμὴν mine ἣν which δέδωκάς you have given μοι, to me, ὅτι because ἠγάπησάς you loved με me πρὸ before καταβολῆς founding κόσμου. of world.

  • John 17:24
    The Bible in Living English

    • 24 “What you have given me, Father—I will that where I am they too be with me that they may see my glory which you have given to me because you loved me before the foundation of the world,

  • John 17:24
    American Standard Version

    • 24 Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

  • John 17:24
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 24 Father! As touching that which thou hast given me I desire—That where I am They also may be with me, That they may behold my own glory which thou hast given me,—Because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

  • John 17:24
    King James Version

    • 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

  • John Study Notes—Chapter 17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 17:24

      founding of the world: The Greek word for “founding” is rendered “to conceive” at Heb 11:11, where it is used with “offspring.” Here used in the expression “founding of the world,” it apparently refers to the birth of children to Adam and Eve. Jesus associates “the founding of the world” with Abel, apparently the first redeemable human and the first to have his name “written in the scroll of life from the founding of the world.” (Lu 11:50, 51; Re 17:8) These words of Jesus in prayer to his Father also confirm that long ago​—before Adam and Eve conceived offspring​—God loved his only-begotten Son.