THESE things have I spoken, that ye might not be stumbled. 2They will put you out of their synagogues: yea, the hour is coming, that every one who killeth you will think he offers God a sacred service. 3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4But these things have I spoken to you, that when the hour is come, ye may remember the same for I had told you. But these things I told you not at the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going away to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going? 6But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 7Yet I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I went not away, the Comforter would not come to you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. 8And when he cometh, he will convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: 9of sin first, because they believe not in me; 10then of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, so ye see me no more; 11and of judgment, because the ruler of this world hath sentence pronounced on him.
12I have many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them just now. 13But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he will conduct you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever things he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will declare to you the things that shall come hereafter. 14He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore I said, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 16A little while longer, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I am going to the Father.
17Then said some of the disciples unto each other, What is this which he saith to us, A little while longer, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and this, because I am going to the Father? 18They said therefore, What is this which he saith, This little while? we know not what he means.
19Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Are ye questioning among yourselves concerning this declaration, which I spake, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me? 20Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be very sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when the little son is born, she no more remembers the anguish, for joy that a man is brought into the world. 22And ye therefore have indeed at present sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall be made glad, and your joy no man taketh from you. 23And in that hour ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That whatsoever things ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you. 24Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete. 25These things have I spoken to you in parables: but the hour is coming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but will plainly inform you respecting the Father. 26In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I do not say to you, I will entreat the Father for you: 27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I am leaving the world, and going to the Father.
29His disciples said unto him, Lo! now thou speakest plainly, and speakest in no-wise proverbial. 30Now we know that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any person should ask thee: by this we believe that thou hast come forth from God. 31Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? 32Behold, the hour is coming, yea, it is already come, that ye shall be dispersed, each after his own concerns, and shall leave me alone: though I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.
[CHAP. XVII.]
THESE things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee: 2even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life: 3and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah. 4I have glorified thee upon earth: I have completed the work which thou gavest me to perform. 5And now, Father, do thou glorify me with thyself in the glory which I held with thee before the world was. 6I have made known thy name to the persons whom thou gavest me out of the world: for thee they had a being, and to me thou hast given them; and thy word have they kept. 7Now have they known, that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee. 8For the declarations which thou gavest to me I have delivered to them; and they have received them, and have known assuredly that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou hast sent me. 9I entreat for them: I make no request for the world; but for those thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10And all mine are thine, and thine mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name’s sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12When I was with them in the world, I preserved them by thy name: those whom thou hast given me have I guarded, and not one of them is perished, except the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to thee; and I am speaking these things in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15I entreat not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest preserve them from the wicked one. 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth. 18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world. 19And for them I devote myself, that they also might be sanctified by the truth. 20And not for them do I make request only, but also for those who shall believe in me through their word; 21that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that these also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22And I have given them the glory, which thou hast given me; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23I 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 hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they may also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou gavest me: because thou hast loved me before the foundation of the world.
25Righteous Father! though the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
[CHAP. XVIII.]
HAVING thus spoken, Jesus went out with his disciples beyond the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into which he went himself, and his disciples. 2Now Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for frequently had Jesus consorted with his disciples there. 3Then Judas having taken a band of soldiers, and the inferior officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and arms. 4Jesus therefore, conscious of all things that were coming upon him, going forward, said to them, Whom are ye seeking? 5They answered him, Jesus the Nazarean. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. Then stood also Judas, who betrayed him, with these men. 6As he then spake to them, I am he, they retreated backward, and fell flat on the ground. 7Again therefore he demanded of them, Whom seek ye? Then they said, Jesus the Nazarean. 8Jesus answered, I told you that I am he: if therefore ye are seeking me, permit these to go away: 9that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, That of those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.