The Life of Jesus

Yeshua knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other what I meant by saying, ‘In a little while, you won’t see me; and then, a little while later, you will see me’?

Yes, it’s true. I tell you that you will sob and mourn, and the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

When a woman is giving birth, she is in pain; because her time has come. But when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering out of joy that a child has come into the world.

So you do indeed feel grief now, but I am going to see you again. Then your hearts will be full of joy, and no one will take your joy away from you.

“When that day comes, you won’t ask anything of me! Yes, indeed! I tell you that whatever you ask from the Father, he will give you in my name.

Till now you haven’t asked for anything in my name. Keep asking, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

“I have said these things to you with the help of illustrations; however, a time is coming when I will no longer speak indirectly but will talk about the Father in plain language.

When that day comes, you will ask in my name. I am not telling you that I will pray to the Father on your behalf,

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

“I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.”

The talmidim said to him, “Look, you’re talking plainly right now, you’re not speaking indirectly at all.

Now we know that you know everything, and that you don’t need to have people put their questions into words. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

Yeshua answered, “Now you do believe.

But a time is coming — indeed it has come already — when you will be scattered, each one looking out for himself; and you will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone; because the Father is with me.

“I have said these things to you so that, united with me, you may have shalom. In the world, you have tsuris. But be brave! I have conquered the world!”

After Yeshua had said these things, he looked up toward heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you —

just as you gave him authority over all mankind, so that he might give eternal life to all those whom you have given him.

And eternal life is this: to know you, the one true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah.

“I glorified you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.

Now, Father, glorify me alongside yourself. Give me the same glory I had with you before the world existed.

“I made your name known to the people you gave me out of the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

Now they know that everything you have given me is from you,

because the words you gave me I have given to them, and they have received them. They have really come to know that I came from you, and they have come to trust that you sent me.

“I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given to me, because they are yours.

Indeed, all I have is yours, and all you have is mine, and in them I have been glorified.