(Tap footnote to read it. Old Testament quotations/allusions are underlined. [Brackets] indicate a textual variant.fnWhen two (or more) different copies of an original manuscript disagree on any given word or phrase — addition, omission, word order, etc. — the disagreement is called a "textual variant". ~99% of existing textual variants are either minor (like spelling), obviously not original (often appearing only in a few late manuscripts), or don't affect meaning (like "Jesus Christ" vs. "Christ Jesus"). The ~1% that remain do not affect any central doctrine of Christianity. The BOS Bible only marks significant textual variants that affect the meaning; smaller variants that do not affect meaning won't be marked for readability. "Love" with a caret ("^love") is agapé.fn"agapé" The Greek words ἀγάπη (agapé, noun), and ἀγαπάω (agapaó; verb) are typically translated "love". However, unlike our English word "love" – which primarily speaks of affection and feelings — agapé centers on choice and behavior. It’s the "love" based on will, choice, behavior, and action; not feelings. (Feelings-based love is the Greek word φιλέω (phileó), which properly means "brotherly love/affection".) Thus, you could hate someone passionately and still treat him with "agapé". Agapé "love" is best understood as the pursuit of what is most beneficial to someone or something, regardless of the cost to yourself or the type of response received from the person or thing. It can also indicate a preference for someone or something over other things. An asterisk (*) indicates a verb in the Greek perfect tense.fnThe Greek perfect tense signifies a completed action in the past with a result and/or an ongoing state that extends into the present. For example, Hebrews 12:2 says in part: "He *sat down at the right hand of the throne of God"; the verb for "sat" is in the perfect tense, indicating that He sat down once (completed action in the past), and also that He remains seated until the present moment (ongoing state).)
Glorify the Son
- Jesus said these things, and having lifted up His eyes to heaven He said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son might glorify you.
- “Just as you gave Him authority over all flesh, so He might give the life of ages to all them whom you have given to Him.
- “And this is the life of ages: that they might know you – the only true God – and He whom you sent: Jesus the Anointed.
- “I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work that you have given to Me, so that I might do it.
- “And now you, Father, glorify Me with yourself, with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
- “I revealed your name to the men whom you gave Me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to Me, and they have kept your word.
- “Now they *know that all things – as many as you have given Me – are of you,
- “because the words that you gave to Me, I have given to them. And they received them and truly knew that I came out from you, and they believed that you sent Me.
- “I ask concerning them. I don’t ask concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given to Me, because they are yours.
- “And all things that are Mine are yours, and your things are Mine, and I have been glorified in them.
Unity
- “And I’m in the world no longer, and yet they are in the world, and I am going to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to Me so that they might be one just as We are one.
- “When I was with them, I was keeping them in your name, which you have given to Me. And I guarded them, and none of them perished except the son of ruin, so the scripture might be fulfilled.fnquotation/allusion to Psalm 41:9
- “But now I’m going to you, and I say these things in the world so they might have My joy which has been completed in themselves.
- “I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they aren’t of the world, just as I’m not of the world.
- “I don’t ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.fn“the evil one” or simply “evil”; either sense could be intended. However, for simply “evil”, a neuter construction is more likely, whereas these are masculine words here. This implies that “the evil one” is intended, but the implication isn’t certain.
- “They aren’t of the world, just as I’m not of the world.
- “Make them holy by the truth; your word is truth.fnquotation/allusion to Psalm 119:160
- “Just as you sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
- “And I make Myself holy for their sake, so they also might be *made holy in truth.
- “And I ask not only for these men, but also for the men believing in Me through their word,
- “so that all might be one, just as you, Father, are in Me and I in you, so that also they might be in Us, so that the world might believe that you sent Me.
- “And the glory that you have given to Me, I have given to them so that they might be one, just as We are one.”
- “I in them and you in Me, so that they might have been perfected into one, so that the world might know that you sent Me and ^loved them just as you ^loved Me.
- “Father, I desire that where I am, those whom you have given to Me might also be with Me, so that they might observe My glory which you have given to Me because you ^loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- “Righteous Father, even though the world didn’t know you, yet I knew you, and these men knew that you sent Me.
- “And I made your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the ^love with which you ^loved Me might be in them, and I in them.”
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