The king said to Abiathar the priest, "Go to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord God in the presence of my father David and you suffered through all that my father suffered."

"Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Remember the word I spoke to you: 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours.

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

They will do these things because they haven't known the Father or Me.

Therefore since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance the race that lies before us,

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won't grow weary and lose heart.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish-- ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

The Father and I are one."

While I was with them, I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

This was to fulfill the words He had said: "I have not lost one of those You have given Me."