The Life of Jesus

Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;

till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

`In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'

His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;

now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.'

Jesus answered them, `Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour,

and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said--`Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,

according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that--all that Thou hast given to him--he may give to them life age-during;

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;

I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do it .

`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,

because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

and all mine are Thine, and Thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them;