Jesus saith unto him, "Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou
not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how
sayest thou, 'Show us the Father'? Believest thou not that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say unto you I speak not
from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works. Believe me
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for
the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth
on me, the works that I do shall he do also: and greater works than
these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the
Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do. If ye love
me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he
shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, even
the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him
not, neither knoweth him: ye know him, for he abideth with you, and
shall be in you. I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
"Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me:
because I live, ye shall live also. In that day ye shall know that I am in
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved
of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him."
Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, "Lord, what is come to pass that
thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?"
Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my
word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make
our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the
word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
"These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. But
the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all
that I said unto you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be fearful. Ye heard how I said to you, I go
away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced,
because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come
to pass, ye may believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the
prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; but that the
world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me
commandment, even so I do."
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me
that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth
fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean
because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the
vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the
branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit:
for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them
into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide
in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my
Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: and so shall ye be my disciples.
Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my
love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and
that your joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that ye love
one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends,
if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call you
servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have
called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have
made known unto you. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and
appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit
should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye may love one
another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before
it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own:
but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto
you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me,
they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep
yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's
sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and
spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse
for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not
done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin:
but now have they both seen and hated me and my Father. But this
cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in
their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' But when the Comforter is
come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to
stumble. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour
cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth
service unto God. And these things will they do, because they have not
known the Father, nor me. But these things have I spoken unto you,
that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told
you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because
I was with you. But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you
asketh me, 'Whither goest thou?' But because I have spoken these
things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell
you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not
away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send
him unto you. And he, when he is come, will convict the world in
respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because
they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father,
and ye behold me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this
world hath been judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,
he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from
himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak:
and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall
glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you.
All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that
he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and
ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me."
Some of his disciples therefore said one to another, "What is this that
he saith unto us, 'A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a
little while, and ye shall see me': and 'Because I go to the Father'?"
They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'A little while'? We
know not what he saith."
Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them,
"Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little
while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see
me'? Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the
world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned
into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is
come: but when she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the
anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world. And ye therefore
now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice,
and your joy no one taketh away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me
no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of
the Father, he will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing
in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
"These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh,
when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you
plainly of the Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say
not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father
himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I
came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and am come into
the world; again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father."
His disciples say, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark
saying. Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any
man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God."
Jesus answered them, "Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is
come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me
alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things
have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have
tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world."