John 17

1 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;

Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:

2 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)

Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him. (aiōnios g166)

3 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)

And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ. (aiōnios g166)

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

I have given you glory on the earth, having done all the work which you gave me to do.

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

And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

6 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.

I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.

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

Now it is clear to them that whatever you have given to me comes from you:

8 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.

Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

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

My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours

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

(All mine are yours, and yours are mine) and I have glory 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 thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

12 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.

While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.

13 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.

And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

14 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.

I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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

My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

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

They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

17 Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth.

Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

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

Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have 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 them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.

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

My prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through their word;

21 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.

May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.

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

And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;

23 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.

I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

24 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.

Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

25 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.

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

26 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.”

And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.