Let this be how you pray: 'our Father in heaven, thy name be revered,

thy Reign begin, thy will be done on earth as in heaven!

yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose.

Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

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

for mine eyes have seen thy saving power

to be a light of revelation for the Gentiles and a glory to thy people Israel."

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."

He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said,

He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;

saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."

Then with a loud cry Jesus said, "Father, I trust my spirit to thy hands," and with these words he expired.

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

So Jesus spoke; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Father, the time has now come; glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee,

now, Father, glorify me in thy presence with the glory which I enjoyed in thy presence before the world began.

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.

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 have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

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.

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."

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.

who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire?

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,

mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

So now, O Lord, consider the threats of these men, and grant that thy servants may be perfectly fearless in speaking thy word,

when thy hand is stretched out to heal and to perform miracles and wonders by the name of thy holy Servant Jesus."

"But, Lord," Ananias answered, "many people have told me about all the mischief this man has done to thy saints at Jerusalem!

And in this city too he has authority from the high priests to put anyone in chains who invokes thy Name!"

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.

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thine altars; I alone am left, and they seek my life.

and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy ??as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name;

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'?

he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:

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;

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

saying, 'I will proclaim thy name to my brothers, in the midst of the church I will sing of thee,'

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.

So I said, 'Here I come ??in the roll of the book this is written of me ??I come to do thy will, O God.'

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

"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;

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

the nations were enraged, but thine anger has come; the time has come for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding thy servants the prophets, and the saints who reverence thy name, both low and high, the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb ??"Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

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.

And I heard the altar cry, "Even so, Lord God almighty: true and just are thy sentences of doom."

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.'

& 23] Vanished the ripe fruit of thy soul's desire! Perished thy luxury and splendour! Never again to be seen.

For the magnates of earth were thy traders; all nations were seduced by thy magic spells.