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 lifting up his eyes to heaven, he 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 power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given 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)

Now this is eternal life: That they may 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 finished the work which thou gavest 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 glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

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 hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them; 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 which thou hast given me, are from 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.

Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send 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 pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because 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 my things are thine, and thine are 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 now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.

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 in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may 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 filled in themselves.

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 hath hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also 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 pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from 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 also am not of the world.

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

Sanctify them in 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 for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may 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 not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me;

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 all may be one, as thou, Father, 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 to them; that they may be one, as we also 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 made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also 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, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me; that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation 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.

Just Father, the world hath 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 thy name to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.