Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Diatessaron of Tatian/The Diatessaron/Section XLVII

Section XLVII.

[1] A little while, and ye shall not behold me; and a little while again, and ye shall [2] behold me; because I go to the Father.&#160; His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he hath said unto us, A little while, and ye shall not behold me; and a little while again, and ye shall behold me:&#160; and, I go to my [3] Father?&#160; And they said, What is this little while that he hath said?&#160; We know not [4] what he speaketh.&#160; 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 ye behold me not, and a little while again, and ye shall [5] behold me?&#160; Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and grieve, but the world shall rejoice:&#160; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your grief shall turn to joy.

[6] For, a woman when the time is come for her that she should bring forth, the arrival of the day of her bringing forth distresseth her:&#160; but whenever she hath brought forth a son, she remembereth not her distress, for joy at the birth of a man into the [7] world.&#160; And ye now also grieve:&#160; but I shall see you, and your hearts shall rejoice, [8] [Arabic, p. 178] and your joy no man taketh from you.&#160; And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.&#160; And verily, verily, I say unto you, All that ye ask my Father in my name, he will give you.&#160; Hitherto ye have asked nothing [9] in my name:&#160; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

[10] I have spoken unto you now in &#230;nigmas: &#160; but there will come an hour when I shall not speak to you in &#230;nigmas, but shall reveal unto you the Father plainly, [11] in that day when ye shall ask in my name:&#160; and I say not unto you, that I shall [12] entreat the Father for you; for the Father loveth you, because ye have loved me, [13] and have believed that I came forth from my Father.&#160; I came forth from my Father, and came into the world:&#160; and I leave the world, and go unto my Father.&#160; [14] His disciples said unto him, Lo, thy speech is now plain, and thou hast not said one [15] thing in an &#230;nigma.&#160; Now, lo, we know that thou knowest everything, and needest not that any man should ask thee:&#160; and by this we believe that thou camest forth [16, 17] from God.&#160; Jesus said unto them, Believe that an hour cometh, and lo, it hath come, and ye shall be scattered, every one of you to his place, and shall leave me [18] alone:&#160; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.&#160; This have I said unto you, that in me ye may have peace.&#160; And in the world trouble shall overtake you:&#160; 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] is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee:&#160; as thou gavest him authority [21] over all flesh, that all that thou hast given him, he might give them eternal life.&#160; And this is eternal life, that they should know that thou alone art true God, and that he [22] [Arabic, p. 179] whom thou didst send is Jesus the Messiah. &#160; I glorified thee in the earth, [23] and the work which thou gavest me to do I have accomplished.&#160; And now glorify thou me, O Father, beside thee, with that glory which I had with thee [24] before the world was.&#160; I made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world:&#160; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept [25, 26] thy word.&#160; Now they know that all that thou hast given me is from thee:&#160; and the sayings which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.&#160; [27] And I ask for their sake:&#160; and my asking is not for the world, but for those whom [28] thou hast given me; for they are thine:&#160; and all that is mine is thine, and all that is [29] thine is mine:&#160; and I am glorified in them.&#160; And now I am not in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee.&#160; My holy Father, keep them in thy [30] name which thou hast given unto me, that they may be one, as we are.&#160; When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:&#160; and I kept those whom thou gavest unto me:&#160; and no man of them hath perished, but the son of perdition; that [31] the scripture might be fulfilled.&#160; Now I come to thee:&#160; and this I say in the world, [32] that my joy may be complete in them.&#160; I have given them thy word; and the world [33] hated them, because they were not of the world, as I was not of the world.&#160; And I ask not this, that thou take them from the world, but that thou keep them from the [34, 35] evil one.&#160; They were not of the world, as I was not of the world.&#160; O Father, sanctify [36] them in thy truth:&#160; for thy word is truth.&#160; And as thou didst send me into the world, I [37] [Arabic, p. 180] also send them into the world.&#160; And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they [38] also may be sanctified in the truth.&#160; 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 thou art in me, and I in thee, and so they also shall be one in us:&#160; that the world [40] may believe that thou didst send me.&#160; And the glory which thou hast given unto [41] me I have given unto them; that they may be one, as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfect into one; and that the world may know that [42] thou didst send me, and that I loved them, as thou lovedst me.&#160; Father, and those whom thou hast given me, I wish that, where I am, they may be with me also; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me:&#160; for thou lovedst me before [43] the foundation of the world.&#160; My righteous Father, and the world knew thee not, [44] but I know thee; and they knew that thou didst send me; and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known to them; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I shall be in them.