John 17

1 These things, spake Jesus, and, lifting up his eyes unto heaven, said: —Father! The hour is come! Glorify thy Son, that, the Son, may glorify, thee, —

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heaven-wards, and said: “Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son may honour thee;

2 Even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that, as touching whatsoever thou hast given him, he might give unto them, life age-abiding. (aiōnios g166)

even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him. (aiōnios g166)

3 And, this, is the age-abiding life, That they get to know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou didst send, Jesus Christ. (aiōnios g166)

And the Immortal Life is this — to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger. (aiōnios g166)

4 I, glorified thee on the earth, The work, finishing, which thou hast given me that I should do.

I have honoured thee on earth by completing the work which thou has given me to do;

5 And, now, glorify me—thou, Father! with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world’s existence, with thee.

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

6 I manifested thy name, unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: Thine, they were, and, to me, thou gavest them, and, thy word, have they kept:

I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart.

7 Now, have they come to know, That, all things, as many as thou gavest me, are, from thee;

They recognise now that everything that thou gavest me was from thee;

8 And, the declarations which thou gavest me, have I given them, and, they, received them, and came to know in truth, that, from thee, came I forth, —and they believed, that, thou, didst send me forth.

for I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

9 I, concerning them, make request: not, concerning the world, do I make request, but concerning them whom thou hast given me, because, thine, they are, —

I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own —

10 And, all my possessions, are, thine, and, thy possessions, mine, and I have been glorified in them.

All that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine — and I am honoured in them.

11 And, no longer, am I in the world, and, they, are, in the world, —and, I, unto thee, am coming. Holy Father! Keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, as, we.

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 thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12 When I was with them, I, kept them in thy name which thou hast given me, —And I kept watch, and, none from among them, went the destruction, —save the son of destruction, that, the Scripture, might be fulfilled.

Whilst 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, unto thee, am I coming; and, these things, am I speaking in the world, that they may have my own joy fulfilled in themselves.

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

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

I have given them thy 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 request not, that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them out of the evil:

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

16 Of the world, they are not, 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 Hallow them in the truth: Thine own word, is, truth:

Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth.

18 Even as thou didst send me forth into the world, I also, send them forth into the world;

Just as thou has sent me as thy Messenger to the world, so I send them as my Messengers to the world.

19 And, on their behalf, I, hallow myself, that, they also, may have become hallowed in truth.

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

20 Not however concerning these alone, do I make request, but, concerning them also who believe, through their word, on me:

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 be, one, —even as, thou, Father, in me, and, I, in thee, —that, they also, in us, may be; —that, the world, may believe that, thou, didst send me forth.

that they all may be one — that as thou, Father, art in union with us — and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.

22 And, I, the glory which thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one, even as, we, are, one.—

I have given them the honour which thou has given me, that they may be one as we are one —

23 I, in them and, thou, in me; That they may have been perfected into, one, —That the world may get to know, that, thou, didst send me forth, and didst love them even as thou didst love, me.

I in union with them and thou with me — that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

24 Father! As touching that which thou hast given me, I desire—That, where, I, am, they also, may be, with me, that they may behold my own glory which thou hast given me, —because thou lovedst me, before the foundation of the world.

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

25 Righteous Father! And so, the world, came not to know thee; but, I, came to know thee, and, these, came to know that, thou, didst send me forth:

O righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

26 And I made known unto them thy name, and will make known, —that, the love wherewith thou lovedst me, in them, may be, and, I, in them.

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