1 THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, [ A number of things in this verse that point to Jesus and the Father as two separate gods. First, if Jesus and the Father are one being, why would Jesus need to pray? I mean, why would Jesus need to pray to himself on behalf of others? It doesn’t make logical or theological sense here. And Jesus doesn’t give any indication in this verse that he is praying to himself. In fact, everything in the verse points to Jesus praying to another being, a being separate from himself. Why would Jesus lift his eyes to heaven? Why would he do this? Naturally, we assume he’s doing this, because he is about to pray to his Father who is in heaven. So, for Jesus to look up when he prays to the Father, is a clear gesture by Jesus that he understood himself as a separate being from the Father. They are literally in two different places. Jesus is on earth, and the Father is in heaven. A clear indication that Jesus and the Father are separate beings, they are in separate places. ] the hour is come; glorify thy son, [ This text is incredibly difficult to make sense of theologically if Jesus and the Father are one being. Why? because, it really would require us to believe that Jesus is praying to himself, and is asking himself to glorify himself(kind of redundent right?). I personally cannot conceive of a God who prays to himself, and asks himself for greater glory. ] that thy son also may glorify thee:

2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, [ Why is this power so important? It includes the power to lay down his own life and to take it up again. ] that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. [ It is with this power that he alone can break the bands of death - and by him having power over death he can free us from the bands of death - all will be resurrected.]

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. [To gain eternal life we must come to know both the Father and the son.Which means we must know their attributes, what type of beings they are and how we can best please them. How do we come to know them? Thru the scriptures and thru the testimony of the living aspostles.]

4 I have glorified thee on the earth: [ Note how the Savior confirms to the Father that he has glorified him . How has the Savior done that? By doing what was asked of him. so how do we glorify the Father? ] I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. [ What was the work or the assignments give the Savior?

The Father gave his son 5 assignments what are they?
1) He is the Creator see D&C 38:1
2) Teach the plan of salvation and set an example in all things John 1:1
3) Work out the Atonement & Resurrection I Peter 1:19-20, D&C 19:15-19
4) Commense work for the dead Moses 7:36; Luke 16, Isaiah 61:1
5) He is our Judge John 5:22, John 17:24 ]

5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. [ so what does he ask for? may I return to thee to be with thee again. ]

6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, [ the writings of Jesus’s early Apostles frequently use the image of “the world” to represent opposition to gospel teachings. ] even as I am not of the world.

15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23  I in them, and thou in me, [ He was not, of course, praying for the loss of their indi- viduality or identity, any more than he was suggesting that about himself. He was praying for them to have the perfect unity enjoyed by him and his Father. For this is eternal life - see nerse 3 "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent". ] that they may be made perfect [ The same comparison is evident in the New Testament, where the Greek word used by James to describe Abraham's faith being made "perfect" (teleioun) when he offered up Isaac (James 2:21-22), is the same word used in the gospel of John when Jesus prays that His disciples may be "perfect" in one (John 17:23), and yet again the same word used by John to describe the crucifixion of Jesus as bringing scripture to "complete fulfillment." (John 19:28) ] in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24 Father, I will [in other words it is his desire] that they [the aspostles and they that up hold them] also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; [Now the Savior asks for 2 things 1) he wants us to live in the celestial kingdom where he lives] that they may behold my glory, [2) He wants us to come and see the kind of life that he enjoys – to understand a fullness of what he has] which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.