Advocate, and Comfortor.} that he may be with you forever,--
014:017 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive;
for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him,
for he lives with you, and will be in you.
014:018 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
014:019 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more;
but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
014:020 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me,
and I in you.
014:021 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one
who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
014:022 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you
are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
014:023 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word.
My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make
our home with him.
014:024 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word
which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
014:025 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
014:026 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind
you of all that I said to you.
014:027 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the
world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled,
neither let it be fearful.
014:028 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.'
If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I
am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
014:029 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens,
you may believe.
014:030 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes,
and he has nothing in me.
014:031 But that the world may know that I love the Father,
and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us
go from here.
015:001 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
015:002 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may
bear more fruit.
015:003 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I
have spoken to you.
015:004 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit
by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you,
unless you remain in me.
015:005 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me,
and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me
you can do nothing.
015:006 If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch,
and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire,
and they are burned.
015:007 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask
whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
015:008 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples.
015:009 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you.
Remain in my love.
015:010 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain
in his love.
015:011 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you,
and that your joy may be made full.
015:012 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I
have loved you.
015:013 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his
life for his friends.
015:014 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
015:015 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't
know what his lord does. But I have called you friends,
for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made
known to you.
015:016 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you
should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain;
that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it to you.
015:017 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
015:018 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before
it hated you.
015:019 If you were of the world, the world would love its own.
But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out
of the world, therefore the world hates you.
015:020 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not
greater than his lord.'{John 13:16} If they persecuted me,
they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,
they will keep yours also.
015:021 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake,
because they don't know him who sent me.
015:022 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin;
but now they have no excuse for their sin.
015:023 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
015:024 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did,
they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also
hated both me and my Father.
015:025 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled
which was written in their law, 'They hated me without
a cause.'{Psalms 35:19; 69:4}
015:026 "When the Counselor{Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper,
Advocate, Intercessor, and Comfortor.} has come, whom I
will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth,
who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
015:027 You will also testify, because you have been with me
from the beginning.
016:001 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't
be caused to stumble.
016:002 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes
that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
016:003 They will do these things{TR adds "to you"} because they
have not known the Father, nor me.
016:004 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes,
you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell
you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
016:005 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me,
'Where are you going?'
016:006 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has
filled your heart.
016:007 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I
go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you.
But if I go, I will send him to you.
016:008 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin,
about righteousness, and about judgment;
016:009 about sin, because they don't believe in me;
016:010 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you
won't see me any more;
016:011 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
016:012 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
016:013 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide
you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself;
but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you
things that are coming.
016:014 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine,
and will declare it to you.
016:015 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said
that he takes{TR reads "will take" instead of "takes"} of mine,
and will declare it to you.
016:016 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while,
and you will see me."
016:017 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is
this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me,
and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I
go to the Father?'"
016:018 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?'
We don't know what he is saying."
016:019 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said
to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this,
that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again
a little while, and you will see me?'
016:020 Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament,
but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your
sorrow will be turned into joy.
016:021 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come.
But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember
the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born
into the world.
016:022 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again,
and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy
away from you.
016:023 "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly
I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name,
he will give it to you.
016:024 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you
will receive, that your joy may be made full.
016:025 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech.
But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in
figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
016:026 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you,
that I will pray to the Father for you,
016:027 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me,
and have believed that I came forth from God.
016:028 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world.
Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
016:029 His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly,
and speak no figures of speech.
016:030 Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for
anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came
forth from God."
016:031 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?
016:032 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you
will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will
leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father
is with me.
016:033 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you have oppression; but cheer up!
I have overcome the world."
017:001 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven,
he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son,
that your Son may also glorify you;
017:002 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give
eternal life to all whom you have given him.
017:003 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God,
and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
017:004 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work
which you have given me to do.
017:005 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory
which I had with you before the world existed.
017:006 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out
of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me.
They have kept your word.
017:007 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given
me are from you,
017:008 for the words which you have given me I have given to them,
and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth
from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
017:009 I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom
you have given me, for they are yours.
017:010 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine,
and I am glorified in them.
017:011 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through
your name which you have given me, that they may be one,
even as we are.
017:012 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them
is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled.
017:013 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world,
that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
017:014 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
017:015 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you
would keep them from the evil one.
017:016 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
017:017 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.{Psalm 119:142}
017:018 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them
into the world.
017:019 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves
also may be sanctified in truth.
017:020 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe
in me through their word,
017:021 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me,
and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world
may believe that you sent me.
017:022 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them;
that they may be one, even as we are one;
017:023 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one;
that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them,
even as you loved me.
017:024 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me
where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me,
for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
017:025 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you;
and these knew that you sent me.
017:026 I made known to them your name, and will make it known;
that the love with which you loved me may be in them,
and I in them."
018:001 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his
disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden,
into which he and his disciples entered.
018:002 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus
often met there with his disciples.
018:003 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers
from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there
with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
018:004 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him,
went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"
018:005 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them,
"I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
018:006 When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward,
and fell to the ground.
018:007 Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
018:008 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you
seek me, let these go their way,"
018:009 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom
you have given me, I have lost none."{John 6:39}
018:010 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck
the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear.
The servant's name was Malchus.
018:011 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not
surely drink it?"
018:012 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers
of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
018:013 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year.
018:014 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient
that one man should perish for the people.
018:015 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple.
Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered
in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
018:016 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple,
who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her
who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
018:017 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you
also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
018:018 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made
a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves.
Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
018:019 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples,
and about his teaching.
018:020 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught
in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet.
I said nothing in secret.
018:021 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said
to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
018:022 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped
Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high
priest like that?"
018:023 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil;
but if well, why do you beat me?"
018:024 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
018:025 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said
therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?"
He denied it, and said, "I am not."
018:026 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative
of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you
in the garden with him?"
018:027 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
018:028 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium,
that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
018:029 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation
do you bring against this man?"
018:030 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't
have delivered him up to you."
018:031 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge
him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him,
"It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
018:032 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
signifying by what kind of death he should die.
018:033 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus,
and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
018:034 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others
tell you about me?"
018:035 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and
the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"
018:036 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world.
If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants
would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews.
But now my Kingdom is not from here."
018:037 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?"
Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this
reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come
into the world, that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
018:038 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this,
he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find
no basis for a charge against him.
018:039 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you
at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you
the King of the Jews?"
018:040 Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man,
but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
019:001 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
019:002 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head,
and dressed him in a purple garment.
019:003 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they
kept slapping him.
019:004 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring
him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis
for a charge against him."
019:005 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and
the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
019:006 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him,
they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them,
"Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis
for a charge against him."
019:007 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought
to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
019:008 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
019:009 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are
you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
019:010 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me?
Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power
to crucify you?"
019:011 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me,
unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who
delivered me to you has greater sin."
019:012 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out,
saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend!
Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
019:013 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out,
and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement,"
but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
019:014 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth
hour.{noon} He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
019:015 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!"
Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief
priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
019:016 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus and led him away.
019:017 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place
of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
019:018 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either
side one, and Jesus in the middle.
019:019 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
019:020 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place
where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written
in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
019:021 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write,
'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"
019:022 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
019:023 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments
and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat.
Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
019:024 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots
for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might
be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots."{Psalm 22:18} Therefore the soldiers
did these things.
019:025 But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother,
and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene.
019:026 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom
he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman,
behold your son!"
019:027 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!"
From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
019:028 After this, Jesus, seeing{NU, TR read "knowing" instead of
"seeing"} that all things were now finished, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
019:029 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge
full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
019:030 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
"It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
019:031 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day,
so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath
(for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their
legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
019:032 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who was crucified with him;
019:033 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead,
they didn't break his legs.
019:034 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
and immediately blood and water came out.
019:035 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true.
He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
019:036 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
"A bone of him will not be broken."{Exodus 12:46;
Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20}
019:037 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom
they pierced."{Zechariah 12:10}
019:038 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate
that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission.
He came therefore and took away his body.
019:039 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred
pounds.{100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds,
or 33 Kilograms.}
019:040 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with
the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
019:041 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden.
In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever
yet been laid.
019:042 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was
near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
020:001 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early,
while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken
away from the tomb.
020:002 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken
away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they
have laid him!"
020:003 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went
toward the tomb.
020:004 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter,