¹These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said — `Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,

¹Yesu alipokwisha sema hayo, alitazama juu mbinguni, akasema, "Baba, saa imefika! Mtukuze Mwanao ili naye Mwana apate kukutukuza.

²according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that — all that Thou hast given to him — he may give to them life age-during;

²Maana ulimpa Mwanao mamlaka juu ya watu wote ili awape uzima wa milele wote hao uliompa.

³and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send — Jesus Christ;

³Na uzima wa milele ndio huu: kukujua wewe uliye peke yako Mungu wa kweli, na kumjua Yesu Kristo uliyemtuma.

⁴I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do [it].

⁴Mimi nimekutukuza hapa duniani; nimeikamilisha ile kazi uliyonipa nifanye.

⁵`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

⁵Sasa, Baba, nitukuze mbele yako kwa ule utukufu niliokuwa nao kabla ya kuumbwa ulimwengu.

⁶I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

⁶"Nimekufanya ujulikane kwa watu wale ulionipa kutoka duniani. Walikuwa watu wako, nawe ukanipa wawe wangu; nao wamelishika neno lako.

⁷now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,

⁷Sasa wanajua kwamba kila ulichonipa kimetoka kwako.

⁸because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

⁸Mimi nimewapa ule ujumbe ulionipa nao wameupokea; wanajua kwamba kweli nimetoka kwako, na wanaamini kwamba wewe ulinituma.

⁹`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

⁹"Nawaombea hao; siuombei ulimwengu, ila nawaombea hao ulionipa, maana ni wako.

¹⁰and all mine are Thine, and Thine [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them;

¹⁰Yote niliyo nayo ni yako, na yako ni yangu; na utukufu wangu umeonekana ndani yao.

¹¹and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

¹¹Na sasa naja kwako; simo tena ulimwenguni, lakini wao wamo ulimwenguni. Baba Mtakatifu! Kwa nguvu ya jina lako ulilonipa, tafadhali uwaweke salama ili wawe kitu kimoja kama sisi tulivyo mmoja.

¹²when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

¹²Nilipokuwa nao, mimi niliwaweka salama kwa nguvu ya jina lako ulilonipa. Mimi nimewalinda, wala hakuna hata mmoja wao aliyepotea, isipokuwa yule aliyelazimika kupotea ili Maandiko Matakatifu yapate kutimia.

¹³`And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

¹³Basi, sasa naja kwako, na nimesema mambo haya ulimwenguni, ili waweze kushiriki kikamilifu furaha yangu.

¹⁴I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

¹⁴Mimi nimewapa neno lako, nao ulimwengu ukawachukia, kwa sababu wao si wa ulimwengu kama vile nami nisivyo wa ulimwengu.

¹⁵I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

¹⁵Siombi uwatoe ulimwenguni, bali naomba uwakinge na yule Mwovu.

¹⁶`Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

¹⁶Wao si wa ulimwengu, kama vile nami nisivyo wa ulimwengu.

¹⁷sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

¹⁷Waweke wakfu kwa ukweli; neno lako ni ukweli.

¹⁸as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;

¹⁸Kama vile ulivyonituma ulimwenguni, nami pia nimewatuma wao ulimwenguni;

¹⁹and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

¹⁹na kwa ajili yao mimi mwenyewe najiweka wakfu ili nao pia wafanywe wakfu katika ukweli.

²⁰`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;

²⁰"Siwaombei hao tu, bali nawaombea pia wote watakaoamini kutokana na ujumbe wao.

²¹that they all may be one, as Thou Father [art] in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

²¹Naomba ili wote wawe kitu kimoja. Baba! Naomba wawe ndani yetu kama vile wewe ulivyo ndani yangu nami ndani yako. Naomba wawe kitu kimoja kusudi ulimwengu upate kuamini kwamba wewe ulinituma.

²²`And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

²²Mimi nimewapa utukufu uleule ulionipa mimi, ili wawe kitu kimoja kama nasi tulivyo mmoja;

²³I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

²³mimi niwe ndani yao, nawe uwe ndani yangu; naomba wakamilishwe na kuwa kitu kimoja, ili ulimwengu upate kujua kwamba wewe ulinituma, na kwamba unawapenda wao kama unavyonipenda mimi.

²⁴`Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

²⁴"Baba! Nataka wao ulionipa wawe pamoja nami pale nilipo, ili wauone utukufu wangu ulionipa; kwa kuwa ulinipenda kabla ya kuumbwa ulimwengu.

²⁵`Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

²⁵Baba Mwema! Ulimwengu haukujui, lakini mimi nakujua. Hawa nao wanajua kwamba wewe ulinituma.

²⁶and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.`

²⁶Nimekufanya ujulikane kwao na nitaendelea kufanya hivyo, ili upendo ulio nao kwangu uwe ndani yao, nami niwe ndani yao."