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;

These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;

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)

as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that [as to] all that thou hast given to him, he should give them life eternal. (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 the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. (aiōnios g166)

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

I have glorified thee on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;

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 glorify me, thou Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee 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 manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

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

Now they have known that all things that thou hast given me are of thee;

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.

for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they have received [them], and have known truly that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest 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 —

I demand concerning them; I do not demand concerning the world, but concerning those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine,

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

(and all that is mine is thine, and [all] that is thine mine, ) 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 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 I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.

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.

When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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 thee. And these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled 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 them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, 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.

I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

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

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

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

Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.

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

As thou hast sent me into the world, I also 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 I sanctify myself for them, that they also may be sanctified by 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 do not demand for these only, but also for those who believe on 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.

that they may be all one, as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast 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 thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, 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 thou in me, that they may be perfected into one [and] that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and [that] thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

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, [as to] those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before [the] foundation of [the] world.

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.

Righteous Father, — and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast 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 made known to them thy name, and will make [it] known; that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.