have been friends to me,
and believed that I came forth from God. [16:28]I came forth from the
Father and have come into the world; again I leave the world and go to
the Father.

8 [16:29]Then his disciples said to him, Behold, now you speak plainly,
and say no parable; [16:30]now we know that you know all things, and
have no need that any one should ask you; on this account we believe
that you have come forth from God. [16:31]Jesus answered them, Do you
now believe? [16:32]Behold, the time is coming, and has come, that you
shall be scattered every one to his own, and leave me alone; and I am
not alone, for the Father is with me. [16:33]These things have I told
you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have
affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHRIST'S PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES.

1 [17:1]JESUS spoke these words and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may
glorify thee, [17:2]as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that
as to all that thou hast given him he should give them eternal life.
[17:3]And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. [17:4]I have glorified
thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do.
[17:5]And now glorify thou me, Father, with thyself, with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was.

2 [17:6]I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gayest me out
of the world; they were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have
kept thy word. [17:7]Now they have known that all things which thou
hast given me are of thee, [17:8]because the words which thou hast
given me I have given them; and they have received and known truly that
I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me. [17:9]I
pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast
given me, for they are thine, [17:10]and all mine are thine, and thine
mine, and I am glorified in them. [17:11]And I am no longer in the
world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father,
keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as
we also are. [17:12]When I was with them in the world, I kept them in
thy name which thou gayest me, and preserved [them], and no one of them
has been lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled; [17:13]b