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¹ These thingis Jhesus spak, and whanne he hadde cast vp hise iyen in to heuene, he seide, Fadir, the our cometh, clarifie thi sone, that thi sone clarifie thee.² As thou hast youun to hym power on ech fleisch, that al thing that thou hast youun to hym, he yyue to hem euerlastynge lijf.³ And this is euerlastynge lijf, that thei knowe thee very God aloone, and whom thou hast sent, Jhesu Crist.⁴ Y haue clarified thee on the erthe, Y haue endid the werk, that thou hast youun to me to do.⁵ And now, fadir, clarifie thou me at thi silf, with the clerenesse that Y hadde at thee, bifor the world was maad.

⁶ Y haue schewid thi name to tho men, whiche thou hast youun to me of the world; thei weren thine, and thou hast youun hem to me, and thei han kept thi word.⁷ And now thei han knowun, that alle thingis that thou hast youun to me, ben of thee.⁸ For the wordis that thou hast youun to me, Y yaf to hem; and thei han takun, and han knowun verili, that Y wente out fro thee; and thei bileueden, that thou sentist me.⁹ Y preie for hem, Y preye not for the world, but for hem that thou hast youun to me, for thei ben thine.¹⁰ And alle my thingis ben thine, and thi thingis ben myne; and Y am clarified in hem.

¹¹ And now Y am not in the world, and these ben in the world, and Y come to thee. Hooli fadir, kepe hem in thi name, whiche thou yauest to me, that thei ben oon, as we ben.¹² While Y was with hem, Y kepte hem in thi name; thilke that thou yauest to me, Y kepte, and noon of hem perischide, but the sone of perdicioun, that the scripture be fulfillid.¹³ But now Y come to thee, and Y speke these thingis in the world, that thei haue my ioie fulfillid in hem silf.¹⁴ Y yaf to hem thi word, and the world hadde hem in hate; for thei ben not of the world, as Y am not of the world.¹⁵ Y preye not, that thou take hem awei fro the world, but that thou kepe hem fro yuel.¹⁶ They ben not of the world, as Y am not of the world.

¹⁷ Halewe thou hem in treuth; thi word is treuthe.¹⁸ As thou sentist me in to the world, also Y sente hem `in to the world.¹⁹ And Y halewe my silf for hem, that also thei ben halewid in treuthe.

²⁰ And Y preye not oneli for hem, but also for hem that schulden bileue in to me bi the word of hem;²¹ that all ben oon, as thou, fadir, in me, and Y in thee, that also thei in vs be oon; that the world bileue, that thou hast sent me.²² And Y haue youun to hem the clerenesse, that thou hast youun to me, that thei ben oon,²³ as we ben oon; Y in hem, and thou in me, that thei be endid in to oon; and that the world knowe, that thou sentist me, and hast loued hem, as thou hast loued also me.

²⁴ Fadir, thei whiche thou yauest to me, Y wole that where Y am, that thei be with me, that thei see my clerenesse, that thou hast youun to me; for thou louedist me bifor the makyng of the world.²⁵ Fadir, riytfuli the world knew thee not, but Y knew thee, and these knewen, that thou sentist me.²⁶ And Y haue maad thi name knowun to hem, and schal make knowun; that the loue bi which thou `hast loued me, be in hem, and Y in hem.