John, 17

1. After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you;

1. When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,

2. so that, just as you have given him power over all humanity, he may give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him.

2. since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

3. And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

3. And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

4. I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.

4. I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do;

5. Now, Father, glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world existed.

5. and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.

6. I have revealed your name to those whom you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

6. "I have manifested thy name to 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. Now at last they have recognised that all you have given me comes from you

7. Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee;

8. for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have indeed accepted it and know for certain that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me.

8. for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

9. It is for them that I pray. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

9. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine;

10. All I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified.

10. all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

11. I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us.

11. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

12. While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them and not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to fulfil the scriptures.

12. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13. But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world to share my joy with them to the full.

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

14. I passed your word on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world.

14. I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15. I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One.

15. I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one.

16. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

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

17. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth.

17. Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.

18. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world,

18. As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

19. and for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth.

19. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

20. I pray not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will come to believe in me.

20. "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,

21. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me.

21. that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one.

22. The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

23. With me in them and you in me, may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.

23. I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.

24. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

24. Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.

25. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

25. O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.

26. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.

26. I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."