they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "El?i, El?i, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

"Now, Master, thou canst let thy servant go, and go in peace, as thou didst promise;

which thou hast prepared before the face of all the peoples,

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

(I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)"

since thou hast granted him power over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given to him.

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;

I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

They know now that whatever thou hast given me comes from thee,

for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

I pray for them ??not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine

I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

I pray not that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt keep them from the evil one.

As thou hast sent me into the world, so have I sent them into the world,

may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ??23 I in them and thou in me ??that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

(this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me').

and they prayed, "O Lord, who readest the hearts of all, do thou single out from these two men him whom thou hast chosen

because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.

Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence.

and on hearing this the entire company raised their cry to God, "O Sovereign Lord, thou art he who made heaven, earth, and sea, and all that in them is,

In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate ??Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

Hence in another psalm he says, thou wilt not let thy holy One suffer decay.

Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious ??as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren who bearest not, break into joy, thou who travailest not; for the children of the desolate woman are far more than of the married.

For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' ??10 and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;

they will perish, but thou remainest, they will all be worn out like a garment,

thou wilt roll them up like a mantle and they win be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years will never fail.'

One writer, as we know, has affirmed, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou carest for him?

For a little while thou hast put him lower than the angels, crowning him with glory and honour,

Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

Just as elsewhere he says, Thou art a priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

for the witness to him is, Thou art priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

Previous priests became priests apart from any oath, but he has an oath from Him who said to him, The Lord has sworn, and he will not change his mind, thou art a priest for ever.

Hence, on entering the world he says, Thou hast no desire for sacrifice or offering; it is a body thou hast prepared for me ??6 in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight.

He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law);

"Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth."

and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?"

saying, "We thank thee, Lord God almighty, who art and wast, that thou hast assumed thy great power and begun to reign;

Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art holy. Yea, all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are disclosed."

Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence.

They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!"

for fear of her torture they will stand far off, crying, 'Woe and alas, thou great city! thou strong city of Babylon! In one brief hour thy doom has come.'