The Prayer Of Jesus
After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heavenwards, and said:
“Father, the hour has come; honor thy Son, that thy Son may honor thee; even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou hast given him. And the Immortal Life is this—to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent as thy Messenger. I have honored thee on earth by completing the work which thou hast given me to do; and now do thou honor me, Father, at thy own side, with the honor which I had at thy side before the world began.
“I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart. They recognize now that everything that thou gavest me was from thee; for I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger. I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thy own—all that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine—and I am honored in them. Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.”
—John.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
—Plutarch.