given him. might know thee the I 2 As thou hast given 2. According as thou hast given me power of senhim power over all tencing all men, condemning or absolving them, which flesh, that he should give eternal life to power is to be instated on me at my resurrection, that as many as thou hast may give eternal life to all, whom thou hast so given me, so inclined their hearts that they cordially and 3 And this is life sincerely come unto me: see note [d] ch. vi. eternal, that they 3. And all that is required to make men partakers only true God, and of this eternal life, is, beside the knowledge of the 2Jesus Christ, whom Father, the only true God, (together with obedience thou hast sent. to his commands formerly revealed by him,) the em4 I have glorified bracing Christ, and acknowledging his commission have finished the from the Father, (and him as the only true God also, work which thou 1 John v. 20,) and so receiving and observing all gavest me to do. that is said and commanded by him. thee on the earth: I 5 And now, O Fa with thine own self 4. I have testified and proclaimed thy will here in ther, glorify thou me this world, and so glorified thee here, and have done with the glory which all which thou hast appointed me to do by way of office I had with thee be- or ministry here. fore the world was. 5. And do thou now, O Father, deal with me pro6 I have manifested thy name unto the portionably, assume this passible, mortal, human namen which thou gavture of mine, wherein I have served thee, unto a parest me out of the ticipation of that honour and dignity and glory, which, world: thine they before I took this nature on me, I enjoyed with thee were, and thou gav- before the foundation of the world, even from all est them me; and they have kept thy eternity, see Phil. ii. 6, 9. word. 6. I have made known thy will to those peculiar 7 Now they have disciples, ver. 18, whom thou wert pleased by thy known that all things grace to fit, and so to bring to me, to undertake my whatsoever thou hast discipleship, and attend me in the nearest relation, given me are of thee. who being servants of thine have received my word, unto them the words and obeyed it as thine, (see note [d] ch. vi.,) and which thou gavest served me in the publishing of it. me; and they have 8 For I have given received them, and 7. These have cordially acknowledged that all that have known surely message, ver. 4, on which I was sent was committed that I came out from to me by thee. thee, and they have 8. For that message by thee committed to me I believed that thou have committed to them, and they have received it, didst send me. as that which in my name they will communicate from thee to the world, being sufficiently assured that my coming and preaching was all by commission from thee. 9 I pray for them: 9, 10. I now offer up a prayer peculiarly for them, I pray not for the which I know are most precious in thy sight, (prayworld, but for them ing for all believers, ver. 20, and at other times, en me; for they are though not now, for his very crucifiers,) and that prayer for that, which for others I cannot pray, a which thou hast giv thine. 1 they know thee, ἵνα γινώσκωσί σε. 2 whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ, dv ànéσreiλas Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν. 3 that I should do it, Iva mohow. 10 And all mine are prayer for their constancy (in persecutions, ver. 15.) thine, and thine are and continuance in the faith, and union with me, mine; and 4I am glorified in them. ver. 12; this I can ask only for believers, (for they only are capable of it,) not for the world of impenitent unbelievers, (who will be sure to despise and trample on, and persecute them, ver. 14,) for believers I say, and peculiarly for my disciples, whom thou, by having given them to me in an eminent manner, must look on as thine own, and also reward them, for having received, and confessed, and performed service to me. world, and I come II And now I am 11. And this, because now I am likely to leave no more in the world, them to hazards and persecutions, and whilst I am a but these are in the leaving the world they tarry in it: therefore, holy to thee. Holy Fa- Father, I beseech thee, take them into thy tuition, ther, keep through and protect them in the discharge of their apostleship, thine own name those which after my departure lies wholly on them; keep whom thou hast giv- all my disciples by thy power, (and by that declaraen me, that they may tion of thy will, which thou hast afforded me by the be one, as we are. 12 While I was with gospel, thy power unto salvation of all believers,) from peril and defection, that they may live to teach and preach uniformly (all agreeing in the same) what I have taught them, in like manner as I have taught (without any alteration) what I had from thee. 12. All this while of my continuing among them I them in the world, I have laboured, by revealing thy will to them, to conkept them in thy name: those that firm them, and also to preserve them from danger, thou gavest me I and it hath succeeded well: of all those whose hearts have kept, and none were by thy preventing grace so prepared, as that of them is lost, but they came to me and undertook my service, (see note the son of perdition; that the scripture [d] on ch. vi.,) none hath miscarried or fallen off, might be fulfilled. (see ch. xviii. 9, and here ver. 15,) but only that 13 And now come wicked traitor prophesied of, Psalm cix. I to thee; and these things I speak in the selves. 13. But now that I am to depart from them, I beworld, that they seech thee, and express this request of mine publicly, might have my joy while I am here, that that courage which I exhort fulfilled in them- them to, and that cheerfulness, in passing through all hazards, may, by their knowing that I thus pray for 14 I have given them, be confirmed in them, and that the joy, which them thy word; and the world hath hated my presence among them now maintains and holds them, because they up in them, may be continued to them completely are not of the world, when I am gone, by remembering what I have now even as I am not of done for them. the world. 15 I pray not that 14, 15. By receiving that doctrine which I have taught thou shouldest take them from thee they are sure to be persecuted by the 4 I have been glorified, dedó§aouaι. keep them through thy name which thou hast given to me: for the King's MS. and many ancient copies read, & dédwкás μoι, and so the Syriac, Euthymius, Theophylact, Cyril. But now I come to thee, Núv dé— 5 them out of the men of this world, and all I beseech for them is, not world, but that thou that they should be taken hence from preaching it to shouldest keep them the world, but preserved constant in all affliction, that from the evil. 16 They are not of they fall not off from thee, nor miscarry in the apthe world, even as I proaching danger, (see ver. 12. ch. xviii. 9,) but live am not of the world. to testify thy truth to the world. 17 Sanctify them 7 through thy truth: 16. They will not be for the world to like or enthy word is truth. tertain any more than I have been. 18 As thou hast 17. Be thou pleased therefore to set them apart, to sent me into the fit them, and consecrate them for the preaching of world, even so have thy truth, the gospel. (See ver. 19, and St. ChryI also sent them into sostome.) the world. 19 And for their 18, 19. For to this office and undertaking they are sakes I sanctify my- sent by me, as I was by thee, (see ch. xx. 21,) thereself, that they also fore I intercede, and withal I offer myself up a sacrimight be sanctified fice, for the consecrating of them, that they may do as 8 through the truth. 209 Neither pray I do, venture their lives in the preaching thy will, I for these alone, but and by this offering of mine, as the ceremony of their for them also which consecration, be consecrated, or set apart for that shall believe on me function. through their word; 21 That they all 20, 21. And what I beg for them I beg also for all may be one; as thou, succeeding believers, which shall by them hereafter Father, art in me, be brought to the faith, (and succeed them in the and I in thee, that government of the church,) that they also may acthey also may be one cord and continue uniformly in one faith and doctrine, may believe that thou that which I from thee have taught, and this by obey in us that the world hast sent me. are one: ing our example, following the copy which we have set them, by agreeing one with the other in all things, that so this agreement of all (thee, and me, and them) may be a powerful means of convincing the worlá that I am sent by thee, which the divisions (and dissensions) of my disciples may bring into suspicion. 22 And the glory 22. As for my disciples, (to whom he returns again, which thou gavest the 20th and 21st verses being included in a parenme I have given thesis, see note [d] ch. vi.) to this end I have furnished them; that they may them with the power of working miracles, (called the be one, even as we glory of God, ch. xi. 40, and the glorious things done by him, Luke xiii. 13,) that they may preach this doctrine. Do thou therefore sanctify them also, that as I have been able to do whatsoever works of power thou art able to work, so they may be able to do also, through the presence of our power working in them. 23. I working in, and enabling them, as thou dost thou in me, that they me, that they may be thus fitted and consecrated to may be 10 made perfect in one; and that their office, in being partakers of the same miraculous the world may know power, and through zeal to thy truth, confer all their 23 I in them, and " for, or, in, ev. for, or, in, ev. 10 perfected into one, TETEλEiwμévoi eis ev. 9 Yet do I not pray for them only, où—đè— that thou hast sent endeavours to the propagating thereof. And this, as me, and hast loved it may appear to be an effect of thy favour toward them, in like manner as it was to me, will be a means of convincing the world that thou hast sent me, and in like manner them also, because such power can be had from none but thee. them, as thou hast loved me. be with me where I 24 Father, I will 24. And for all that thus sincerely come from thee that they also, whom to me, which from being thy servants come and rethou hast given me, ceive, and believe in me, (see note [d] ch. vi.,) obey am; that they may my message also, for them I pray, that they may folbehold my glory, low me to heaven, that they may manifestly see the which thou hast honour wherewith thou hast magnified me, (an effect given me for thou of thine infinite love towards me,) before all eternity, lovedst me before the and not look on me any longer as a mortal passible foundation of the man, such as now I am, see ver. 5. world. and these have 25 O righteous Fa- 25. And yet for all this, righteous Father, the ther, the world hath rulers and great men of the world do not acknownot known thee: but ledge thee after all thy goodness to them, as appears I have known thee, by their not receiving of me, who am sent by thee; known that thou hast but as I have received the revelation of thy will, known thy secret counsels, so, though the world have not, yet these disciples of mine, for whom I now pray, have been convinced, and acknowledge that I come sent me. 26 And I have de- from thee. clared unto them thy 26. And therefore I have revealed thee, and thy name, and will de- attributes, and purposes to them, and will do so still; clare it: that the love that as thou hast expressed thy love to me, so I may loved me may be in express mine to them, and enable them to work the them, and I in them, same works that I am able to work. wherewith thou hast WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. 2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, CHAP. XVIII. a knew the place : for a knew that to be the place where Jesus used to be, Jesus ofttimes re- and where he would be found at this time: for Jesus sorted thither with ofttimes resorted thither his disciples. 3 Judas then, hav3. Judas therefore furnishing himself with a band ing received a band of men and officers of soldiers, and some of the ministers of the sanhefrom the chief priests drim, cometh to that place with candles and lamps, 11 Or, gavest me before the foundation of the world, because thou hast loved me. 1 assembled there with his, συνήχθη ἐκεῖ. and Pharisees, com- many of both sorts, (which, though it were full moon, eth thither with might yet be needful, by reason of clouds,) and with[a] lanterns and torches and weapons. al, weapons, to apprehend when they had found him. 4. Jesus therefore knowing all that was done by knowing all things them, and what was approaching to him, went forththat 3 should come 4 Jesus therefore, upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? 5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground. 7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. 8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: 9 That the saying might be fulfilled, b the soldiers &c. went backward e let my disciples, all but myself, be dismissed, or not apprehended. 9. And by this means that speech of his (see ch. which he spake, Of xvii. 12, 15.) had another, beside the ordinary complethem which thou tion, that no one of his disciples was cut off with him. gavest me have I lost none. 10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The ser vant's name was Malchus. II Then said Jesus unto Peter, & Put up d This ought not to have been done by thee: shall I thy sword into the not suffer patiently, without resisting, what my heaCup venly Father hath determined I shall suffer? sheath: the Father which my 12 Then the band and the 'captain and officers of the Jews 2 with lights and lamps. 4 colonel, Xixiapxos. 3 were coming upon him, came out, τὰ ἐρχόμενα—ἐξελθὼν |