The Diatessaron (Section 47)

[1] John 16:16 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. John 16:17 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? John 16:18 And they said, What is this little while that he has said? We know not [4] what he speaks. John 16:19 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 you behold me not, and a little while again, and you shall [5] behold me? John 16:20 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] John 16:21 For, a woman when the time is come for her that she should bring forth, the arrival of the day of her bringing forth 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. John 16:22 And ye now also grieve: but I shall see you, and your hearts shall rejoice, [8] [Arabic, p. 178] and your joy no man takes from you. John 16:23 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. John 16:24 Hitherto you have asked nothing [9] in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

[10] John 16:25 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: John 16:26 and I say not unto you, that I shall [12] entreat the Father for you; John 16:27 for the Father loves you, because you have loved me, [13] and have believed that I came forth from my Father. John 16:28 I came forth from my Father, and came into the world: and I leave the world, and go unto my Father. [14] John 16:29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, your speech is now plain, and you have not said one [15] thing in an ænigma. John 16:30 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. John 16:31 Jesus said unto them, Believe that an hour comes, John 16:32 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. John 16:33 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] John 17:1 This said Jesus, and lifted up his eyes unto heaven, and said, My Father, the hour [20] is come; glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you: John 17:2 as you gave him authority [21] over all flesh, that all that you have given him, he might give them eternal life. John 17:3 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. John 17:4 I glorified you in the earth, [23] and the work which you gave me to do I have accomplished. John 17:5 And now glorify me, O Father, beside you, with that glory which I had with you [24] before the world was. John 17:6 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. John 17:7 Now they know that all that you have given me is from you: John 17:8 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] John 17:9 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: John 17:10 and all that is mine is yours, and all that is [29] yours is mine: and I am glorified in them. John 17:11 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. John 17:12 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. John 17:13 Now I come to you: and this I say in the world, [32] that my joy may be complete in them. John 17:14 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. John 17:15 And I ask not this, that you take them from the world, but that you keep them from the [34, 35] evil one. John 17:16 They were not of the world, as I was not of the world. John 17:17 O Father, sanctify [36] them in your truth: for your word is truth. John 17:18 And as you sent me into the world, I [37] [Arabic, p. 180] also send them into the world. John 17:19 And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they [38] also may be sanctified in the truth. John 17:20 Neither for these alone do I ask, but for [39] the sake of them that believe in me through their word; John 17:21 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. John 17:22 And the glory which you have given unto [41] me I have given unto them; John 17:23 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. John 17:24 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. John 17:25 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; John 17:26 that the love wherewith you loved me may be in them, and I shall be in them.