John 17:2
Good News Translation
For you gave him authority over all people, so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

New Revised Standard Version
since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Contemporary English Version
And you gave him power over all people, so he would give eternal life to everyone you give him.

New American Bible
just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

As.

John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.

John 5:21-29 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. . . .

Psalm 2:6-12 But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment. . . .

Psalm 110:1 A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

Daniel 7:14 And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

Ephesians 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead and setting him on his right hand in the heavenly places.

Philippians 2:10 That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:

Hebrews 1:2 In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Hebrews 2:8,9 Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath subjected all things to him he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him. . . .

1 Peter 3:22 Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.

give.

John 17:24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

John 4:14 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

John 6:27,54-57 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed. . . .

John 10:28 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

John 11:25,26 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: . . .

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Colossians 3:3,4 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. . . .

1 Timothy 1:16 But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

1 John 1:2 For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and hath appeared to us.

1 John 2:25 And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life everlasting.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.

many.

John 6:37,39 All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out. . . .

John 10:29 That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

Context
Prayer for the Son
1These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. 2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. 3Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:27
All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Matthew 25:46
And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

John 3:35
The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.

John 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

John 6:37
All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

John 6:39
Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day.

John 10:28
And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

John 17:6
I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word.

John 17:9
I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine.

John 17:24
Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

John 17:1
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