1 A little while, and you shall not behold me; and a little while again, and you shall 2 behold me; because I go to the Father. His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he has said unto us, A little while, and you shall not behold me; and a little while again, and you shall behold me: and, I go to my 3 Father? And they said, What is this little while that he has said? We know not 4 what he speaks. 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 you behold me not, and a little while again, and you shall 5 behold me? Verily, verily, I say unto you, that you shall weep and grieve, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your grief shall turn to joy.
6 For, a woman when the time has come for her that she should bring forth, the arrival of the day of her bringing forth distresses her: but whenever she has brought forth a son, she remembers not her distress, for joy at the birth of a man into the 7 world. And ye now also grieve: but I shall see you, and your hearts shall rejoice, 8 [Arabic, p. 178] and your joy no man takes from you. And in that day you shall ask me nothing. And verily, verily, I say unto you, All that you ask my Father in my name, he will give you. Hitherto you have asked nothing 9 in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.
10 I have spoken unto you now in ænigmas: but there will come an hour when I shall not speak to you in ænigmas, but shall reveal unto you the Father plainly, 11 in that day when you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I shall 12 entreat the Father for you; for the Father loves you, because you have loved me, 13 and have believed that I came forth from my Father. I came forth from my Father, and came into the world: and I leave the world, and go unto my Father. 14 His disciples said unto him, Lo, your speech is now plain, and you have not said one 15 thing in an ænigma. Now, lo, we know that you know everything, and needest not that any man should ask you: and by this we believe that you came forth 16, 17 from God. Jesus said unto them, Believe that an hour comes, and lo, it has come, and you 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. 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 This said Jesus, and lifted up his eyes unto heaven, and said, My Father, the hour 20 has come; glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you: as you gave him authority 21 over all flesh, that all that you have given him, he might give them eternal life. And this is eternal life, that they should know that you alone are true God, and that he 22 [Arabic, p. 179] whom you sent is Jesus the Messiah. I glorified you in the earth, 23 and the work which you gave me to do I have accomplished. And now glorify me, O Father, beside you, with that glory which I had with you 24 before the world was. I made known your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept 25, 26 your word. Now they know that all that you have given me is from you: and the sayings which you gave me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from you, and believed that you sent me. 27 And I ask for their sake: and my asking is not for the world, but for those whom 28 you have given me; for they are yours: and all that is mine is yours, and all that is 29 yours is mine: and I am glorified in them. And now I am not in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to you. My holy Father, keep them in your 30 name which you have given unto me, that they may be one, as we are. When I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: and I kept those whom you gave unto me: and no man of them has perished, but the son of perdition; that 31 the scripture might be fulfilled. Now I come to you: and this I say in the world, 32 that my joy may be complete in them. I have given them your word; and the world 33 hated them, because they were not of the world, as I was not of the world. And I ask not this, that you take them from the world, but that you keep them from the 34, 35 evil one. They were not of the world, as I was not of the world. O Father, sanctify 36 them in your truth: for your word is truth. And as you sent me into the world, I 37 [Arabic, p. 180] also send them into the world. And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they 38 also may be sanctified in the truth. Neither for these alone do I ask, but for 39 the sake of them that believe in me through their word; that they may be all one; as you are in me, and I in you, and so they also shall be one in us: that the world 40 may believe that you sent me. And the glory which you have given unto 41 me I have given unto them; that they may be one, as we are one; I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfect into one; and that the world may know that 42 you sent me, and that I loved them, as you loved me. Father, and those whom you have given me, I wish that, where I am, they may be with me also; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before 43 the foundation of the world. My righteous Father, and the world knew you not, 44 but I know you; and they knew that you sent me; and I made known unto them your name, and will make it known to them; that the love wherewith you loved me may be in them, and I shall be in them.
Source: The Diatessaron (New Advent)