The Life of Jesus

Now I am no longer in the world. They are in the world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, guard them by the power of your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are.

When I was with them, I guarded them by the power of your name, which you have given to me; yes, I kept watch over them; and not one of them was destroyed (except the one meant for destruction, so that the Tanakh might be fulfilled).

But now, I am coming to you; and I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

“I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world — just as I myself do not belong to the world.

I don’t ask you to take them out of the world, but to protect them from the Evil One.

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

Set them apart for holiness by means of the truth — your word is truth.

Just as you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.

On their behalf I am setting myself apart for holiness, so that they too may be set apart for holiness by means of the truth.

“I pray not only for these, but also for those who will trust in me because of their word,

that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are united with me and I with you, I pray that they may be united with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one —

I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

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

Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these people have known that you sent me.

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

After Yeshua had said all this, he went out with his talmidim across the stream that flows in winter through the Vadi Kidron, to a spot where there was a grove of trees; and he and his talmidim went into it.

Now Y’hudah, who was betraying him, also knew the place; because Yeshua had often met there with his talmidim.

So Y’hudah went there, taking with him a detachment of Roman soldiers and some Temple guards provided by the head cohanim and the P’rushim; they carried weapons, lanterns and torches.

Yeshua, who knew everything that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Whom do you want?”

“Yeshua from Natzeret,” they answered. He said to them, “I AM.” Also standing with them was Y’hudah, the one who was betraying him.

When he said, “I AM,” they went backward from him and fell to the ground.

So he inquired of them once more, “Whom do you want?” and they said, “Yeshua from Natzeret.”

“I told you, ‘I AM,’” answered Yeshua, “so if I’m the one you want, let these others go.”

This happened so that what he had said might be fulfilled, “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”