Gospel Reading for Today

John 17:1-11, from The Second Testament

Yēsous prays

17:1     Yēsous spoke these things and, lifting his eyes to the heaven, he said,

Father, the hour has come. Splendor your Son so your Son may splendor you, 2 just as you gave to him authority over all Flesh, so -- all that you gave to him –  he may give to them Era-Life. 3 This is Era-Life, that they may know you (the only true God) and him you commissioned (Yēsous Christos). 4 I splendored you on the land, completing the work that you have given to me that I may do. 5 Now you splendor me, Father, by your side with the splendor that I had by your side before the Kosmos was.

6          I made your name apparent to humans that you gave me from the Kosmos. They were yours and you gave them to me and they have observed your word. 7 Now they have known that everything that you gave to me is from you 8 because the utterances that you gave me I have given to them and they received and knew truly that I exited from you, and they trusted that you commissioned me.

9          I ask for them, I do not ask for the Kosmos but for the ones you have given to me  because they are yours, 10 and all who are mine are yours and yours mine, and I have been splendored in them. 11 I am no longer in the Kosmos, and they are in the Kosmos, and I come to you. Devoted Father, keep them in your name that you have given to me so that may be one just as we [are one].