THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN

THE NEW TESTAMENT
TRANSLATED FROM
THE SYRIAC PESHITO VERSION BY JAMES MURDOCK

Chapter 17

(Joh 17:1) These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: My Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

(Joh 17:2) As thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he might give life eternal to as many as thou hast given him.

(Joh 17:3) And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, that thou art the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Messiah.

(Joh 17:4) I have glorified thee on the earth; the work which thou gavest me to do, I have finished.

(Joh 17:5) And now, my Father, glorify thou me, with that glory which I had with thee before the world was.

(Joh 17:6) I have made known thy name to the men, whom thou gavest me from the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.

(Joh 17:7) Now I have known, that whatever thou hast given me, was from thee.

(Joh 17:8) For, the words thou gavest to me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known certainly, that I came from thy presence; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

(Joh 17:9) And I pray for them; it is not for the world that I pray, but for them whom thou hast given me, for they are thine.

(Joh 17:10) And all that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine; and I am glorified in them.

(Joh 17:11) Henceforth I am not in the world; but these are in the world, and I go to thee. Holy Father, keep them in that thy name, which thou hast given to me; that they may be one, as we are.

(Joh 17:12) While I have been with them in the world, I have kept them in thy name. Those thou gavest me, have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

(Joh 17:13) But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that my joy may be complete in them.

(Joh 17:14) I 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.

(Joh 17:15) I pray not, that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from evil:

(Joh 17:16) for they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

(Joh 17:17) Father, sanctify them by thy truth, thy word is the truth.

(Joh 17:18) As thou didst send me into the world, so have I also sent them into the world.

(Joh 17:19) And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

(Joh 17:20) And it is not for them only that I pray, but also for those who shall believe in me through their discourse;

(Joh 17:21) that they all may be one; as thou, my Father, [art] in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; so that the world may believe, that thou didst send me.

(Joh 17:22) And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one, as we are one.

(Joh 17:23) 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 that thou hast loved them as also thou hast loved me.

(Joh 17:24) Father, I desire that those whom thou hast given me, may also be with me where I am; that they may see that glory of mine which thou hast given me, as thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

(Joh 17:25) My righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known, that thou didst send me.

(Joh 17:26) And I have made known to them thy name; and I will make it known; so that the love, with which thou lovedst me, may be in them, and I in them.