< John 17 >
1 Yeshua said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
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 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give everlasting life to all whom you have given him. (aiōnios )
even as you gave him power over all humanity, so that he should give eternal life to everyone you have given him. (aiōnios )
3 This is everlasting life, that they may know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua Meshikha. (aiōnios )
And the eternal life is this – to know you the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent as your messenger. (aiōnios )
4 I glorified you on the earth by accomplishing the work which you have given me to do.
I have honoured you on earth by completing the work which you have given me to do;
5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
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 revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
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 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
They recognise now that everything that you gave me was from you;
8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you 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 do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
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 All things that are mine are yours, and yours 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 I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even 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, I kept them in your name which you have given me, and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, except the son of destruction, 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 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
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 have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even 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 you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.
16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.
17 Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.
Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have 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 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.
20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
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 may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that you 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 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even 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 you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved 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 desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved 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 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you 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 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved 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.’