A5- PART S

PART S: Arrest
for people whom you gave to me as mine.
Yes, all are Yours, but all now count as mine
and by this I am glorified. The world
I do not pray for. I leave it behind:
But those whom I’ve made Yours will still remain.
For them I pray. Please know them by the name
You’ve given me. I want them to be one
as You and I are one. Judas, I lost.
Perdition’s son was he. The prophets warned
that he’d betray your cause: and they were right.
So now I’m heading heavenwards, but I’ve shared
my knowledge of these things with those I leave
for it will bring them happiness today
and later on. For now, they have to face
the hatred of the world which hated me,
for neither they nor I belong to it.
I pray that you’ll protect them from the grasp
of Satan, but, not take them from the Earth.
Instead, may they be sanctified by truth–
the truth with which you sent me to their world.
For then they’ll spread the power of your love
among those who’ll believe when I am gone
to join you, Father, and have left your work
to them. I wish them to be One as You
and I are One. May they be One with us
and so convince the world your love for them
is just as strong as is your love for me.
Jesus and his disciples sang a hymn,
then, made their way towards Gethsemane.
The name means ‘oil-press’ and it was a place
of shading olive trees, which they knew well -
a fitting place to meditate and rest.
Jesus expressed a wish to go and pray.
Accompanied by Peter, and with James
and John, the sons of Zebedee, he found
a favoured spot a little way away.
Then, pausing as he left them there, he said,
‘I am consumed with sorrow and distress.
I’m overwhelmed with thoughts of pain and death.
Stay here, and stay awake and watch with me.’
With this he disappeared from view among
the olive trees, where, falling to his knees
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