1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14I 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. 15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Yesu Ajiombea Mwenyewe
117:1 Yn 11:41; 12:23; 13:31, 32Baada ya Yesu kusema haya, alitazama kuelekea mbinguni akawaombea na kusema:
“Baba, saa imewadia. Umtukuze Mwanao, ili Mwanao apate kukutukuza wewe. 217:2 Dan 7:14; Yn 6:37, 39Kwa kuwa umempa mamlaka juu ya wote wenye mwili ili awape uzima wa milele wale uliompa. 317:3 Flp 3:8; Yn 17:8, 18, 21, 23, 25; 3:17Nao uzima wa milele ndio huu, wakujue wewe uliye Mungu wa pekee, wa kweli na Yesu Kristo uliyemtuma. 417:4 Yn 13:31; 19:30Nimekutukuza wewe duniani kwa kuitimiza ile kazi uliyonipa niifanye. 517:5 Flp 2:6; Yn 1:2Hivyo sasa, Baba, unitukuze mbele zako kwa ule utukufu niliokuwa nao pamoja na wewe kabla ulimwengu haujakuwepo.
Yesu Awaombea Wanafunzi Wake
617:6 Yn 17:26; 1:18“Nimelidhihirisha jina lako kwa wale ulionipa kutoka ulimwengu. Walikuwa wako, nawe ukanipa mimi, nao wamelitii neno lako. 7Sasa wamejua ya kuwa vyote ulivyonipa vimetoka kwako, 817:8 Yn 8:26; 1:18kwa kuwa maneno yale ulionipa nimewapa wao, nao wameyapokea na kujua kwamba kweli nimetoka kwako, nao wameamini kuwa wewe ulinituma. 917:9 Lk 22:32Ninawaombea wao. Mimi siuombei ulimwengu, bali nawaombea wale ulionipa kwa sababu wao ni wako. 1017:10 Yn 16:15Wote walio wangu ni wako na walio wako ni wangu, nami nimetukuzwa ndani yao. 1117:11 Yn 13:1; 17:13; 7:33; 17:21-23; Za 133:1; Yn 10:30Mimi sasa simo tena ulimwenguni, lakini wao bado wamo ulimwenguni, nami naja kwako. Baba Mtakatifu, uwalinde kwa uweza wa jina lako ulilonipa, ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo wamoja. 1217:12 Yn 6:39; 6:70Nilipokuwa pamoja nao, niliwalinda, wakawa salama kwa lile jina ulilonipa. Hakuna hata mmoja aliyepotea, isipokuwa yule aliyekusudiwa upotevu, ili Maandiko yapate kutimia.
1317:13 Yn 3:29“Lakini sasa naja kwako, nami ninasema mambo haya wakati bado nikiwa ulimwenguni, ili wawe na furaha yangu kamili ndani yao. 1417:14 Yn 15:19; 8:23; 1Yn 3:13; Yn 17:16Nimewapa neno lako, nao ulimwengu umewachukia kwa kuwa wao si wa ulimwengu kama mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu huu. 1517:15 Mt 5:37Siombi kwamba uwaondoe ulimwenguni, bali uwalinde dhidi ya yule mwovu. 1617:16 Yn 17:14Wao si wa ulimwengu huu, kama vile mimi nisivyo wa ulimwengu. 1717:17 2Sam 7:28; Yn 15:3; 1Fal 17:24Uwatakase kwa ile kweli, neno lako ndilo kweli. 1817:18 Yn 17:3, 8, 21, 23, 25; 20:21Kama vile ulivyonituma mimi ulimwenguni, nami nawatuma vivyo hivyo. 1917:19 Yn 17:17; 1Kor 1:2, 30; 1The 4:7; Ebr 10:10Kwa ajili yao najiweka wakfu ili wao nao wapate kutakaswa katika ile kweli.
Yesu Awaombea Wote Wamwaminio
2017:20 Yn 17:9“Siwaombei hawa peke yao, bali nawaombea na wale wote watakaoniamini kupitia neno lao 2117:21 Gal 3:28; Rum 12:5; Yn 10:38; 14:11ili wawe na umoja kama vile wewe Baba ulivyo ndani yangu na mimi nilivyo ndani yako, wao nao wawe ndani yetu, ili ulimwengu upate kuamini ya kuwa wewe ndiye uliyenituma mimi. 2217:22 Yn 14:20; 1Yn 1:2; 3:24Utukufu ule ulionipa nimewapa wao, ili wawe na umoja kama sisi tulivyo wamoja. 2317:23 Yn 3:17; 16:27; Kol 3:14Mimi ndani yako na wewe ndani yangu, ili wawe wamekamilika katika umoja na ulimwengu upate kujua ya kuwa umenituma, nami nimewapenda wao kama unavyonipenda mimi.
2417:24 Yn 12:26; 1:14; Mt 25:34; Yn 1:2“Baba, shauku yangu ni kwamba, wale ulionipa wawe pamoja nami pale nilipo, ili waweze kuuona utukufu wangu, yaani, utukufu ule ulionipa kwa kuwa ulinipenda hata kabla ya kuwekwa misingi ya ulimwengu.
2517:25 Yn 15:21; 16:3; 3:17; 7:29“Baba Mwenye Haki, ingawa ulimwengu haukujui, mimi ninakujua, nao wanajua ya kuwa umenituma. 26Nimefanya jina lako lijulikane kwao nami nitaendelea kufanya lijulikane, ili kwamba upendo ule unaonipenda mimi uwe ndani yao na mimi mwenyewe nipate kuwa ndani yao.”
