John 17

1 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;

Jesus spoke these things, and he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy Son, that the Son may also glorify thee,

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

just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life. (aiōnios g166)

3 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)

And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent. (aiōnios g166)

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

I glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work which thou have given me that I should do.

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

And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.

6 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.

I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gave me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gave them to me, and they have kept thy word.

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

Now they know that all things, as many as thou gave me are from thee.

8 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.

Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.

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

I pray about them. I do not pray about the world, but about whom thou have given me, because they are for thee.

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

And all my things are thy things, and thy things are my things, and I am glorified in them.

11 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.

And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name that thou have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we.

12 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.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Whom thou gave to me, I kept, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of destruction, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13 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.

And now I come to thee. And I speak these things in the world, so that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.

14 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.

I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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

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

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

They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

17 Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.

Sanctify them in thy truth. Thy word is truth.

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

Just as thou sent me into the world, so also I sent them into the world.

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

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they may also themselves be sanctified in truth.

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

And I pray not about these only, but also about those who believe in me through their word,

21 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.

so that they may all be one, just as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou sent me.

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

And I, the glory that thou have given me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we are one,

23 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.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be fully perfected in one, and so that the world may know that thou sent me, and loved them, just as thou loved me.

24 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.

Father, whom thou gave to me, I desire that where I am, they also may be with me, so that they may see my glory that thou have given me, because thou loved me before the foundation of the world.

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

And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

26 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.’

And I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, so that the love that thou loved me may be in them, and I in them.