耶稣的祷告

17 耶稣说完后,就抬头望着天说:“父啊!时候到了,愿你使你的儿子得荣耀,好让你的儿子也使你得荣耀。 因为你把管理世人的权柄赐给了祂,使祂可以将永生赐予你交托给祂的人。 这永生就是,认识你——独一的真神,并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督。 我已经完成你交给我的工作,使你在地上得了荣耀。 父啊,现在让我和你同享创世以前我们所共有的荣耀吧!

“你从世上赐给我的人,我已将你[a]显明给他们。他们本来属于你,你将他们赐给了我,他们遵守你的道。 如今他们知道,你赐给我的一切都是从你那里来的, 因为我已经把你赐给我的道赐给他们,他们也接受了,并且确实知道我是从你那里来的,也相信是你差遣了我。

“我不为世人祈求,却为他们祈求,就是为你赐给我的那些人祈求,因为他们属于你。 10 一切属于我的都是你的,属于你的也是我的,我从他们身上得了荣耀。 11 现在我要离开这个世界去你那里了,他们却仍然留在世上。圣父啊,求你为了自己的名,就是你赐给我的名而保守他们,使他们像我们一样合而为一。 12 我和他们在一起的时候,靠着你赐给我的名保守他们,看顾他们。除了那个注定灭亡的人以外,他们一个也没有灭亡,这是为了应验圣经上的话。

13 “现在我要去你那里了,我趁着还在世上的时候这样说,是要叫他们心里充满我的喜乐。 14 我已将你的道赐给他们,世人恨他们,因为他们像我一样不属于这个世界。 15 我不求你带他们离开这个世界,但求你保守他们脱离那恶者。 16 因为他们像我一样不属于这个世界。 17 求你用真理,就是你的道,使他们圣洁。 18 你怎样差我到世上来,我也照样差他们到世人中间。 19 为了他们,我献上自己,使他们借着真理可以圣洁。

20 “我不但为这些人祈求,也为那些因他们的话而信我的人祈求, 21 使他们都合而为一,正如父你在我里面,我在你里面一样,并且使他们也在我们里面,好让世人相信是你差我来的。 22 我又将你赐给我的荣耀赐给他们,使他们像我们一样合而为一。 23 我在他们里面,你在我里面,好使他们也完完全全地合而为一。这样,世人便知道我是你差来的,而且知道你爱他们,就像爱我一样。

24 “父啊!我在哪里,愿你赐给我的人也在哪里,好让他们看见你赐给我的荣耀,因为在创世以前你已经爱我了。 25 公义的父啊!世界还未认识你以前,我已经认识你了,这些人也知道是你差我来的。 26 我使他们认识了你的名,我还要使他们更认识你,好让你对我的爱存在他们里面,我也在他们里面。”

Footnotes

  1. 17:6 ”希腊文是“你的名”,“名”代表一个人的全部。

Chapter 17

The Prayer of Jesus.[a] When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven[b] and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,(A) [c]just as you gave him authority over all people,(B) so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. [d]Now this is eternal life,(C) that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.(D)

“I revealed your name[e] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,(E) 10 and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.(F) 11 And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. 12 When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.(G) 13 But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.(H) 14 I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.(I) 15 [f]I do not ask that you take them out of the world(J) but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. 17 Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.(K) 18 As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.(L) 19 And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

20 “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.(M) 22 And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. 24 Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am[g] they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.(N) 25 Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.(O) 26 I made known to them your name and I will make it known,[h] that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.”

Footnotes

  1. 17:1–26 Climax of the last discourse(s). Since the sixteenth century, this chapter has been called the “high priestly prayer” of Jesus. He speaks as intercessor, with words addressed directly to the Father and not to the disciples, who supposedly only overhear. Yet the prayer is one of petition, for immediate (Jn 17:6–19) and future (Jn 17:20–21) disciples. Many phrases reminiscent of the Lord’s Prayer occur. Although still in the world (Jn 17:13), Jesus looks on his earthly ministry as a thing of the past (Jn 17:4, 12). Whereas Jesus has up to this time stated that the disciples could follow him (Jn 13:33, 36), now he wishes them to be with him in union with the Father (Jn 17:12–14).
  2. 17:1 The action of looking up to heaven and the address Father are typical of Jesus at prayer; cf. Jn 11:41 and Lk 11:2.
  3. 17:2 Another possible interpretation is to treat the first line of the verse as parenthetical and the second as an appositive to the clause that ends v 1: so that your son may glorify you (just as…all people), so that he may give eternal life….
  4. 17:3 This verse was clearly added in the editing of the gospel as a reflection on the preceding verse; Jesus nowhere else refers to himself as Jesus Christ.
  5. 17:6 I revealed your name: perhaps the name I AM; cf. Jn 8:24, 28, 58; 13:19.
  6. 17:15 Note the resemblance to the petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “deliver us from the evil one.” Both probably refer to the devil rather than to abstract evil.
  7. 17:24 Where I am: Jesus prays for the believers ultimately to join him in heaven. Then they will not see his glory as in a mirror but clearly (2 Cor 3:18; 1 Jn 3:2).
  8. 17:26 I will make it known: through the Advocate.