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"Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would
have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go, ye
know the way."
Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know
we the way?"
Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no
one cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye would
have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen
him."
Philip saith unto him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth
us."
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 hated 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."