John 17

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

These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee:

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

even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that whatsoever thou hast given him, to them he should give eternal life. (aiōnios g166)

3 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)

And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ. (aiōnios g166)

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

I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.

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

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6 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.

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

7 They recognise now that everything that you gave me was from you;

Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:

8 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.

for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

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

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:

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

and all things that are mine 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 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.

And I am no more 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, even as we [are].

12 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 fulfilment of scripture.

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

13 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.

But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 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.

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.

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

I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest 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, even as I am not of the world.

17 Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

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

As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I 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 their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves 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,

Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;

21 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.

that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

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

And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we [are] one;

23 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.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

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

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

O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;

26 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.’

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