John 17

Io 17.1Haec locūtus est Iēsus: et sublevātīs oculīs in caelum, dīxit: Pater, vēnit hōra: clārificā Fīlium tuum, ut Fīlius tuus clārificet tē:

These things Jesus spoke; and with his eyes raised into heaven, he said: Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you,

Note. sublevātīs oculīs: ablative absolute, 'his eyes having been raised'. clārificā: imperative of clārificō 'glorify'; clārificet is the subjunctive in the purpose clause.

Io 17.2sīcut dedistī eī potestātem omnis carnis, ut omne, quod dedistī eī, det eīs vītam aeternam.

just as you have given him power over all flesh, so that to all that you have given him he may give eternal life.

Note. potestātem omnis carnis: 'power over all flesh', an objective genitive; carō 'flesh' stands for humankind. omne quod dedistī eī: the neuter singular gathers the disciples together as one whole.

Io 17.3Haec est autem vīta aeterna: ut cognōscant tē, sōlum Deum vērum, et quem mīsistī Iēsum Chrīstum.

And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Note. ut cognōscant tē: the ut clause defines 'eternal life'. sōlum Deum vērum: sōlum is the adjective 'only', agreeing with Deum.

Io 17.4Ego tē clārificāvī super terram: opus cōnsummāvī, quod dedistī mihi ut faciam:

I have glorified you upon the earth: I have completed the work which you gave me to do.

Note. opus cōnsummāvī, quod dedistī mihi ut faciam: 'I have completed the work which you gave me to do'; ut + subjunctive replaces the infinitive.

Io 17.5et nunc clārificā mē tū, Pater, apud tēmetipsum, clāritāte quam habuī, priusquam mundus esset, apud tē.

And now glorify me, you, Father, beside yourself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, beside you.

Note. tēmetipsum: tē strengthened by -met and ipsum, 'yourself'. priusquam mundus esset: subjunctive after priusquam.

Io 17.6Manifestāvī nōmen tuum hominibus, quōs dedistī mihi dē mundō: tuī erant, et mihi eōs dedistī: et sermōnem tuum servāvērunt.

I have made your name plain to the men whom you gave me from the world: yours they were, and to me you gave them; and they have kept your word.

Note. Manifestāvī: from manifestō 'make plain, reveal'. tuī erant: tuī is the possessive adjective, 'they were yours'.

Io 17.7Nunc cognōvērunt quia omnia quae dedistī mihi, abs tē sunt:

Now they have come to know that all things which you have given me are from you:

Note. abs tē: abs is an old form of ab used before t; it survives in a few phrases.

Io 17.8quia verba quae dedistī mihi, dedī eīs: et ipsī accēpērunt, et cognōvērunt vērē quia ā tē exīvī, et crēdidērunt quia tū mē mīsistī.

because the words which you gave me I have given to them; and they themselves received them, and came to know truly that I came out from you, and they believed that you sent me.

Io 17.9Ego prō eīs rogō; nōn prō mundō rogō, sed prō hīs quōs dedistī mihi: quia tuī sunt:

I ask for them; not for the world do I ask, but for these whom you have given me, because they are yours:

Io 17.10et mea omnia tua sunt, et tua mea sunt: et clārificātus sum in eīs.

and all my things are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them.

Io 17.11Et iam nōn sum in mundō, et hī in mundō sunt, et ego ad tē veniō. Pater sāncte, servā eōs in nōmine tuō, quōs dedistī mihi: ut sint ūnum, sīcut et nōs.

And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, those whom you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we also are.

Note. Pater sāncte: vocative; adjectives in -us have a vocative in -e. ut sint ūnum: unum is neuter, 'one thing', not 'one person'.

Io 17.12Cum essem cum eīs, ego servābam eōs in nōmine tuō. Quōs dedistī mihi, custōdīvī: et nēmō ex eīs periit, nisi fīlius perditiōnis, ut Scrīptūra impleātur.

While I was with them, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me, I guarded; and no one out of them perished except the son of ruin, so that the Scripture may be filled.

Note. fīlius perditiōnis: a Hebrew-style genitive, 'son of ruin', i.e. one destined for ruin (Judas). Scrīptūra: 'the Scripture'.

Io 17.13Nunc autem ad tē veniō: et haec loquor in mundō, ut habeant gaudium meum implētum in sēmetipsīs.

But now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

Note. gaudium meum implētum: a participle used as a predicate, 'my joy made complete'. in sēmetipsīs: 'in themselves'.

Io 17.14Ego dedī eīs sermōnem tuum, et mundus eōs odiō habuit, quia nōn sunt dē mundō, sīcut et ego nōn sum dē mundō.

I have given them your word, and the world held them in hatred, because they are not of the world, just as I too am not of the world.

Io 17.15Nōn rogō ut tollās eōs dē mundō, sed ut servēs eōs ā malō.

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil.

Note. ā malō: either 'from evil' (neuter) or 'from the evil one' (masculine); the Latin, like the Greek, allows both.

Io 17.16Dē mundō nōn sunt, sīcut et ego nōn sum dē mundō.

They are not of the world, just as I too am not of the world.

Io 17.17Sānctificā eōs in vēritāte. Sermō tuus vēritās est.

Make them holy in the truth. Your word is truth.

Note. Sānctificā: imperative of sānctificō, 'make holy, consecrate', a Church Latin verb from sānctus + faciō.

Io 17.18Sīcut tū mē mīsistī in mundum, et ego mīsī eōs in mundum:

Just as you sent me into the world, I too have sent them into the world;

Io 17.19et prō eīs ego sānctificō mēipsum: ut sint et ipsī sānctificātī in vēritāte.

and for them I make myself holy, so that they themselves also may be made holy in truth.

Note. mēipsum: mē strengthened by ipsum, 'myself'. sānctificātī: perfect passive participle with sint, 'that they may be made holy'.

Io 17.20Nōn prō eīs autem rogō tantum, sed et prō eīs quī crēditūrī sunt per verbum eōrum in mē:

But I do not ask for these only, but also for those who are going to believe in me through their word:

Note. quī crēditūrī sunt: future active participle with sum, 'who are going to believe'. per verbum eōrum: 'through their word'.

Io 17.21ut omnēs ūnum sint, sīcut tū Pater in mē, et ego in tē, ut et ipsī in nōbīs ūnum sint: ut crēdat mundus, quia tū mē mīsistī.

that all may be one, just as you, Father, in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: so that the world may believe that you sent me.

Note. A chain of ut clauses: the first two express what is prayed for, the last (ut crēdat mundus) the purpose. sīcut tū, Pater, in mē: the verb es is understood.

Io 17.22Et ego clāritātem, quam dedistī mihi, dedī eīs: ut sint ūnum, sīcut et nōs ūnum sumus.

And the glory which you gave me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we too are one.

Io 17.23Ego in eīs, et tū in mē: ut sint cōnsummātī in ūnum: et cognōscat mundus quia tū mē mīsistī, et dīlēxistī eōs, sīcut et mē dīlēxistī.

I in them, and you in me: so that they may be made complete into one; and the world may know that you sent me, and have loved them just as you have loved me.

Note. cōnsummātī in ūnum: 'brought to completion into one'. et cognōscat mundus: still part of the ut clause.

Io 17.24Pater, quōs dedistī mihi, volō ut ubi sum ego, et illī sint mēcum: ut videant clāritātem meam, quam dedistī mihi: quia dīlēxistī mē ante cōnstitūtiōnem mundī.

Father, those whom you have given me, I wish that where I am, they also may be with me, so that they may see my glory, which you gave me: because you loved me before the founding of the world.

Note. volō ut ... sint: volō with an ut clause instead of an infinitive, common in later Latin. ante cōnstitūtiōnem mundī: 'before the foundation of the world'.

Io 17.25Pater iūste, mundus tē nōn cognōvit, ego autem tē cognōvī: et hī cognōvērunt, quia tū mē mīsistī.

Just Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you; and these have known that you sent me.

Note. Pater iūste: vocative of iūstus.

Io 17.26Et nōtum fēcī eīs nōmen tuum, et nōtum faciam: ut dīlēctiō, quā dīlēxistī mē, in ipsīs sit, et ego in ipsīs.

And I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Note. nōtum fēcī ... nōtum faciam: perfect and future side by side, 'I have made known and will make known'. quā dīlēxistī mē: quā is an ablative, 'the love with which'.