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The Words of Jesus of Nazareth
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Father, the hour is come. Glorify your Son, so that he can bring glory to you; for you have given him authority over every man an woman on earth, that he might give eternal life to those you have given him.
And this is life eternal: That they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have glorified you on earth by completing the work that you gave me to do. Now, Father, reveal my glory as I stand in your presence, the glory I had wit you since before the world began. I have revealed you to those that you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have accepted your eternal words. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. I have faithfully delivered to them the words that you gave me; they have believed them, and have come to know in their hearts that I have come from God, sent by you to them.
I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me; for they truly are yours. All of these who have believed in me are yours; and they do honour me. I am returning to you in heaven; but those that believe in me remain behind. Father, keep them by the power of your name; that they all may be one, as we are one.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them by the power that you gave me; I guarded them, and not one was lost, except for the son of destruction, that the scripture might be fulfilled. Now I am coming to you; but I am requesting these things while I am still in the world, that they might experience and receive the full revelation of what is theirs.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are no longer children of this dark and dying world, even as I am not. I am not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one; for they are no more children of darkness than I am. Make them holy by your truth; for your word is truth.
As you have sent me into the world, so I send them into the world. And for their sakes I consecrate myself, that they may be made holy, and grow in truth. I do nt pray for these only, but also for the future believers, who will come to believe in me because of the testimony that they give. Let them all be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are one: that as you are in me, and I in you, they will be in us; and the world will know that you sent me.
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and you in me, being perfected into one, that by this the world will fully understand that you have sent me, and have loved them as much as you have loved me. May they one day be with me where I am, beholding my glory, which you have lovingly given me since the foundation of the world.
Father of goodness and truth, the world has not known you; but I have known you, and these who believe in me know that it is you who sent me. I have revealed you to them, and will continue to reveal you to them, that the love you have for me may dwell in their hearts, and that I may dwell there as well. So be it.
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These are the very words of Jesus of Nazereth. Taken originally from the Bible , and arranged here by subject as they appear in Lee Cantelon's book "The Words" (c) 1997. [www.thewords.com]
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