Part 27

017:009 "I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

017:010 and everything that is mine is Thine, and everything that is Thine is mine; and I am crowned with glory in them.

017:011 I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name-- the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

017:012 While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction-- that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

017:013 "But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts.

017:014 I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

017:015 I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.

017:016 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

017:017 Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

017:018 Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them;

017:019 and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

017:020 "Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;

017:021 that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

017:022 And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

017:023 I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

017:024 "Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory-- my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

017:025 And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me.

017:026 And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

018:001 After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered-- Himself and His disciples.

018:002 Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there with His disciples.

018:003 So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons.

018:004 Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them.

018:005 "For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied. (Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.)

018:006 As soon then as He said to them, "I am he," they went backwards and fell to the ground.

018:007 Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?" "For Jesus the Nazarene," they said.

018:008 "I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he. If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples go their way."

018:009 He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one."

018:010 Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.