Section XLVII.

[1] ^32483248    John xvi. 16.A little while, and ye shall not behold me; and a little while again, and ye shall [2] behold me; because I go to the Father.  ^32493249    John xvi. 17.His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he hath said unto us, A little while, and ye shall not behold me; and a little while again, and ye shall behold me:  and, I go to my [3] Father?  ^32503250    John xvi. 18.And they said, What is this little while that he hath said?  We know not [4] what he speaketh.  ^32513251    John xvi. 19.And Jesus perceived that they were seeking to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said unto you, A little while, and ye behold me not, and a little while again, and ye shall [5] behold me?  ^32523252    John xvi. 20.Verily, verily,^32533253    Not quite the usual formula, there being here no article. I say unto you, that ye shall weep and grieve, but the world shall rejoice:  and ye shall be sorrowful, but your grief shall turn^32543254    The Arabic might also be rendered be turned, but the Syriac is intransitive. to joy.

116[6] ^32553255    John xvi. 21.For, a woman when the time is come for her that she should bring forth, the arrival of the day of her bringing forth distresseth her:  but whenever she hath brought forth a son, she remembereth not her distress, for joy at the birth of a man into the [7] world.  ^32563256    John xvi. 22.And ye now also grieve:  but I shall see you, and your hearts shall rejoice, [8] [Arabic, p. 178] and your joy no man taketh from you.  ^32573257    John xvi. 23.And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.  And verily, verily,^32583258    Not quite the usual formula, there being here no article (cf. also § 47, 5). I say unto you, All that ye ask my Father in my name, he will give you.  ^32593259    John xvi. 24.Hitherto ye have asked nothing [9] in my name:  ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

[10] ^32603260    John xvi. 25.I have spoken unto you now in ænigmas:^32613261    Not the usual word for proverb or parable (cf. Syriac versions).  but there will come an hour when^32623262    So Vat. ms. and Peshitta.  The Borg. ms., followed by Ciasca, has and a time when. I shall not speak to you in ænigmas,^32633263    Not the usual word for proverb or parable (cf. Syriac versions). but shall reveal unto you the Father plainly, [11] in that day when^32643264    cf. Peshitta. ye shall ask in my name:  ^32653265    John xvi. 26.and I say not unto you, that I shall [12] entreat the Father for you; ^32663266    John xvi. 27.for the Father loveth you, because ye have loved me, [13] and have believed that I came forth from my Father.  ^32673267    John xvi. 28.I came forth from my Father, and came into the world:  and I leave the world, and go unto my Father.  [14] ^32683268    John xvi. 29.His disciples said unto him, Lo, thy speech is now plain, and thou hast not said one [15] thing in an ænigma.  ^32693269    John xvi. 30.Now, lo, we know that thou knowest everything, and needest not that any man should ask thee:  and by this we believe that thou camest forth [16, 17] from God.  ^32703270    John xvi. 31.Jesus said unto them, Believe that an hour cometh, ^32713271    John xvi. 32.and lo, it hath come, and ye shall be scattered, every one of you to his place, and shall leave me [18] alone:  and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.  ^32723272    John xvi. 33.This have I said unto you, that in me ye may have peace.  And in the world trouble shall overtake you:  but be of good courage; for I have overcome the world.

[19] ^32733273    John xvii. 1.This said Jesus, and lifted up his eyes unto heaven, and said, My Father, the hour [20] is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee:  ^32743274    John xvii. 2.as thou gavest him authority [21] over all flesh, that all that thou hast given him, he might give them^32753275    Lit. it or him. eternal life.  ^32763276    John xvii. 3.And this is eternal life, that they should^32773277    In the Borg. ms. the sentence begins with that they might, the preceding clause being omitted. know that thou alone art true God, and that he [22] [Arabic, p. 179] whom thou didst send is Jesus the Messiah.^32783278    The above is perhaps the most natural rendering of the Arabic; but the latter is really only an awkward word-for-word reproduction of the Peshitta, which means know thee, who alone art the God of truth, and him whom thou didst send, (even) Jesus the Messiah.  ^32793279    John xvii. 4.I glorified thee in the earth, [23] and the work which thou gavest me to do I have accomplished.  ^32803280    John xvii. 5.And now glorify thou me, O Father, beside thee, with that glory which I had with thee [24] before the world was.  ^32813281    John xvii. 6.I made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world:  thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept [25, 26] thy word.  ^32823282    John xvii. 7.Now they^32833283    So Ciasca’s text.  The Vat. ms. has I, with the Peshitta and probably Sinaitic. know that all that thou hast given me is from thee:  ^32843284    John xvii. 8.and the sayings which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.  [27] ^32853285    John xvii. 9.And I ask for their sake:  and my asking is not for the world, but for those whom [28] thou hast given me; for they are thine:  ^32863286    John xvii. 10.and all that is mine is thine, and all that is [29] thine is mine:  and I am glorified in them.  ^32873287    John xvii. 11.And now I am not in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee.  My^32883288    So in Sinaitic.  The Peshitta omits My. holy Father, keep them in thy [30] name which thou hast given unto me, that they may be one, as we are.  ^32893289    John xvii. 12.When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:  and I kept those whom thou gavest unto me:  and no man of them hath perished, but the son of perdition; that [31] the scripture might be fulfilled.  ^32903290    John xvii. 13.Now I come to thee:  and this I say in the world, [32] that my joy may be complete in them.  ^32913291    John xvii. 14.I have given them thy word; and the world [33] hated them, because they were not of the world, as I was not of the world.  ^32923292    John xvii. 15.And I ask not this, that thou take them from the world, but that thou keep them from the [34, 35] evil one.  ^32933293    John xvii. 16.They were not of the world, as I was not of the world.  ^32943294    John xvii. 17.O Father, sanctify [36] them in thy truth:  for thy word is truth.  ^32953295    John xvii. 18.And as thou didst send me into the world, I [37] [Arabic, p. 180] also send them into the world.  ^32963296    John xvii. 19.And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they [38] also may be sanctified in the truth.  ^32973297    John xvii. 20.Neither for these alone do I ask, but for [39] the sake of them that believe in me through their word; ^32983298    John xvii. 21.that they may be all one; 117as thou art in me, and I in thee, and so they also shall be one in us:  that the world [40] may believe that thou didst send me.  ^32993299    John xvii. 22.And the glory which thou hast given unto [41] me I have given unto them; ^33003300    John xvii. 23.that they may be one, as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfect into^33013301    Vat. ms. has as. one; and that the world may know that [42] thou didst send me, and that I^33023302    cf. Peshitta, as pointed in the editions. loved them, as thou lovedst me.  ^33033303    John xvii. 24.Father, and those whom thou hast given me, I wish that, where I am, they may be with me also; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me:  for thou lovedst me before [43] the foundation^33043304    cf. § 17, 17, note. of the world.  ^33053305    John xvii. 25.My righteous Father,^33063306    The Arabic as it stands should mean My Father is righteous; but it is simply the ordinary Syriac reading, and is so rendered above. and the world knew thee not, [44] but I know thee; and they knew that thou didst send me; and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known to them; ^33073307    John xvii. 26.that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I shall^33083308    Or perhaps may. be in them.