ayer. In it Jesus
acknowledged the Father as the source of His power and authority, which
authority extends even to the giving of eternal life to all who are
worthy: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." By way of reverent
report as to the work assigned Him, the Son said: "I have glorified thee
on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was." With unfathomable love the Lord
pleaded for those whom the Father had given Him, the apostles then
present, who had been called out from the world, and who had been true
to their testimony of Himself as the Son of God. Of them but one, the
son of perdition, had been lost. In the fervor of devoted supplication,
the Lord pleaded:

"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy
truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world,
even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their
sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them
also which shall believe on me through their word; that 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. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one: I 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. Father, 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. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee:
but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent
me. And 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."

When they had sung a hymn, Jesus and the Eleven went out to the Mount of
Olives.[1230]

THE LORD'S AGONY IN GETHSEMANE.[1231]

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