The Life of Jesus

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

`And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

`Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;

and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;

that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

`And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

`Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

`Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'

These things having said, Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his disciples,

and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples.

Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;

Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?'

they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;' Jesus saith to them, `I am he ;' --and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; --

when, therefore, he said to them--`I am he ,' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.

Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'

Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am he ; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

that the word might be fulfilled that he said--`Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'