¹⸤Jesus continued,⸥ “I have said these things to you so that you won’t lose your faith. ²You will be thrown out of synagogues. Certainly, the time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God. ³They will do these things to you because they haven’t known the Father or me. ⁴But I’ve told you this so that when it happens you’ll remember what I’ve told you. I didn’t tell you this at first, because I was with you.

⁵“Now I’m going to the one who sent me. Yet, none of you asks me where I’m going. ⁶But because I’ve told you this, you’re filled with sadness. ⁷However, I am telling you the truth: It’s good for you that I’m going away. If I don’t go away, the helper won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸He will come to convict the world of sin, to show the world what has God’s approval, and to convince the world that God judges it. ⁹He will convict the world of sin, because people don’t believe in me. ¹⁰He will show the world what has God’s approval, because I’m going to the Father and you won’t see me anymore. ¹¹He will convince the world that God judges it, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹²“I have a lot more to tell you, but that would be too much for you now. ¹³When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth. He won’t speak on his own. He will speak what he hears and will tell you about things to come. ¹⁴He will give me glory, because he will tell you what I say. ¹⁵Everything the Father says is also what I say. That is why I said, ‘He will take what I say and tell it to you.’

¹⁶“In a little while you won’t see me anymore. Then in a little while you will see me again.”

¹⁷Some of his disciples said to each other, “What does he mean? He tells us that in a little while we won’t see him. Then he tells us that in a little while we will see him again and that he’s going to the Father.” ¹⁸So they were asking each other, “What does he mean when he says, ‘In a little while’? We don’t understand what he’s talking about.”

¹⁹Jesus knew they wanted to ask him something. So he said to them, “Are you trying to figure out among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you won’t see me, and in a little while you will see me again’? ²⁰I can guarantee this truth: You will cry because you are sad, but the world will be happy. You will feel pain, but your pain will turn to happiness. ²¹A woman has pain when her time to give birth comes. But after the child is born, she doesn’t remember the pain anymore because she’s happy that a child has been brought into the world.

²²“Now you’re in a painful situation. But I will see you again. Then you will be happy, and no one will take that happiness away from you. ²³When that day comes, you won’t ask me any more questions. I can guarantee this truth: If you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to you. ²⁴So far you haven’t asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive so that you can be completely happy.

²⁵“I have used examples to illustrate these things. The time is coming when I won’t use examples to speak to you. Rather, I will speak to you about the Father in plain words. ²⁶When that day comes, you will ask for what you want in my name. I’m telling you that I won’t have to ask the Father for you. ²⁷The Father loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. ²⁸I left the Father and came into the world. Again, ⸤as I’ve said,⸥ I’m going to leave the world and go back to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said, “Now you’re talking in plain words and not using examples. ³⁰Now we know that you know everything. You don’t need to wait for questions to be asked. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God.”

³¹Jesus replied to them, “Now you believe. ³²The time is coming, and is already here, when all of you will be scattered. Each of you will go your own way and leave me all alone. Yet, I’m not all alone, because the Father is with me. ³³I’ve told you this so that my peace will be with you. In the world you’ll have trouble. But cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

17TH CHAPTER

Jesus Prays for Himself, His Disciples, and His Church

¹After saying this, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time is here. Give your Son glory so that your Son can give you glory. ²After all, you’ve given him authority over all humanity so that he can give eternal life to all those you gave to him. ³This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. ⁴On earth I have given you glory by finishing the work you gave me to do. ⁵Now, Father, give me glory in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.

⁶“I made your name known to the people you gave me. They are from this world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They did what you told them. ⁷Now they know that everything you gave me comes from you, ⁸because I gave them the message that you gave me. They have accepted this message, and they know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

⁹“I pray for them. I’m not praying for the world but for those you gave me, because they are yours. ¹⁰Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine. I have been given glory by the people you have given me. ¹¹I won’t be in the world much longer, but they are in the world, and I’m coming back to you. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name, the name that you gave me, so that their unity may be like ours. ¹²While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name that you gave me. I watched over them, and none of them, except one person, became lost. So Scripture came true.

¹³“But now, ⸤Father,⸥ I’m coming back to you. I say these things while I’m still in the world so that they will have the same joy that I have. ¹⁴I have given them your message. But the world has hated them because they don’t belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. ¹⁵I’m not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶They don’t belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

¹⁷“Use the truth to make them holy. Your words are truth. ¹⁸I have sent them into the world the same way you sent me into the world. ¹⁹I’m dedicating myself to this holy work I’m doing for them so that they, too, will use the truth to be holy.

²⁰“I’m not praying only for them. I’m also praying for those who will believe in me through their message. ²¹I pray that all of these people continue to have unity in the way that you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they may be united with us so that the world will believe that you have sent me. ²²I have given them the glory that you gave me. I did this so that they are united in the same way we are. ²³I am in them, and you are in me. So they are completely united. In this way the world knows that you have sent me and that you have loved them in the same way you have loved me.

²⁴“Father, I want those you have given to me to be with me, to be where I am. I want them to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the world was made. ²⁵Father, you have done what is right and the world didn’t know you. Yet, I knew you, and these ⸤disciples⸥ have known that you sent me. ²⁶I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will be in them.”

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