JESUS PRAYS FOR HIS DISCIPLES--FORETELLS PETER'S DENIAL.
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son also
may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast
given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know
thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
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.
I 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. Now they have known that all
things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For 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.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which
thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are
thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And 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_.
While 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. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in
the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in
themselves.
I have given them my word; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world. 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.
[Illustration: Gorge of the Kidron.]
When Jesus had spoken these words, and when they had sung an hymn, he
came out, and went as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his
disciples also followed him, over the brook Cedron. Then saith Jesus
unto them,
All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is
written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock
shall be scattered abroad. But after I am risen again, I will
go before you into Galilee.
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all _men_ shall be offended
because of thee, _yet_ will I never be offended. And Jesus saith unto
him,
Verily I say unto thee, That this day, _even_ in this night,
before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not
deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said all the disciples.