John 17

1 These things spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and saide, Father, that houre is come: glorifie thy Sonne, that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee,

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heavenwards, and said: ‘Father, the hour has come; honour your Son, so that your Son may honour you;

2 As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him. (aiōnios g166)

even as you gave him power over all humanity, so that he should give eternal life to everyone you have given him. (aiōnios g166)

3 And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ. (aiōnios g166)

And the eternal life is this – to know you the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent as your messenger. (aiōnios g166)

4 I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe.

I have honoured you on earth by completing the work which you have given me to do;

5 And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.

and now do you honour me, Father, at your own side, with the honour which I had at your side before the world began.

6 I haue declared thy Name vnto the men which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gauest them me, and they haue kept thy worde.

I have revealed you to those whom you gave me from the world; they were your own, and you gave them to me; and they have laid your message to heart.

7 Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.

They recognise now that everything that you gave me was from you;

8 For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, and haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.

for I have given them the teaching which you gave me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from you, and they believed that you have sent me as your messenger.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the worlde, but for them which thou hast giuen me: for they are thine.

I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are your own –

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

All that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine – and I am honoured in them.

11 And nowe am I no more in the world, but these are in the worlde, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keepe them in thy Name, euen them whome thou hast giuen mee, that they may bee one, as we are.

Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to you. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are.

12 While I was with them in the worlde, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the childe of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

While I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul – in fulfilment of scripture.

13 And now come I to thee, and these things speake I in the worlde, that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues.

But now I am to come to you; and I am speaking like this, while still in the world, so that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

14 I haue giuen them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

I have given them your message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

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

I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.

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

They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

17 Sanctifie them with thy trueth: thy word is trueth.

Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.

18 As thou diddest send me into the world, so haue I sent them into the world.

Just as you have sent me as your messenger to the world, so I send them as my messengers to the world.

19 And for their sakes sanctifie I my selfe, that they also may bee sanctified through the trueth.

And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.

20 I praie not for these alone, but for them also which shall beleeue in mee, through their woorde,

But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their message,

21 That they all may bee one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: euen that they may be also one in vs, that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me.

that they all may be one – that as you, Father, are in union with us – and so the world may believe that you have sent me as your messenger.

22 And the glory that thou gauest me, I haue giuen them, that they may be one, as we are one,

I have given them the honour which you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one –

23 I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

I in union with them and you with me – so that they may be perfected in their union, and so that the world may know that you have sent me as your messenger, and that you have loved them as you have loved me.

24 Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.

Father, my desire for all those whom you have given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honour which you have given me; for you did love me before the beginning of the world.

25 O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you; and these people knew that you have sent me as your messenger.

26 And I haue declared vnto the thy Name, and will declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.

I have made you known to them, and will do so still; that the love that you have had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also.’