John 17

1 These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said — 'Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heavenwards, and said: “Father, the hour has come; honor your Son, so that your Son may honor you;

2 according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that — all that Thou hast given to him — he may give to them life age-during; (aiōnios g166)

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

3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send — Jesus Christ; (aiōnios g166)

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)

4 I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do [it].

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

5 'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

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

6 I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

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.

7 now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,

They recognize now that everything that you gave me was from you;

8 because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

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.

9 'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

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

10 and all mine are Thine, and Thine [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them;

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

11 and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to 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 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.

12 when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

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 fulfillment of scripture.

13 'And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

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.

14 I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

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.

15 I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

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

16 'Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

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

17 sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.

18 as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;

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

19 and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

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

20 'And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in 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, as Thou Father [art] in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

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.

22 'And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

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

23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

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.

24 'Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

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 honor which you have given me; for you did love me before the beginning of the world.

25 'Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

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

26 and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'

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.”