John 15–16

Chapter 15

¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ²As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit. ³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me. ⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. ⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you. ⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

⁹As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. ¹⁰If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full. ¹²This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you. ¹⁵I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and that ye should bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁸If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you. ¹⁹If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours. ²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³He that hates me hates also my Father. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

²⁶But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me; ²⁷and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from the beginning.

Chapter 16

¹These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be offended. ²They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God; ³and these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴But I have spoken these things to you, that when their hour shall have come, ye may remember them, that I have said them unto you. But I did not say these things unto you from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵But now I go to him that has sent me, and none of you demands of me, Where goest thou? ⁶But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

⁷But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you. ⁸And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹of sin, because they do not believe on me; ¹⁰of righteousness, because I go away to my Father, and ye behold me no longer; ¹¹of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. ¹²I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now. ¹³But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming. ¹⁴He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall announce it to you. ¹⁵All things that the Father has are mine; on account of this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce it to you.

¹⁶A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, because I go away to the Father. ¹⁷Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, What is this he says to us, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away to the Father? ¹⁸They said therefore, What is this which he says of the little while? We do not know of what he speaks. ¹⁹Jesus knew therefore that they desired to demand of him, and said to them, Do ye inquire of this among yourselves that I said, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me? ²⁰Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy. ²¹A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world. ²²And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

²³And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you. ²⁴Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father. ²⁶In that day ye shall ask in my name; and I say not to you that I will demand of the Father for you, ²⁷for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God.

²⁸I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father. ²⁹His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and utterest no allegory. ³⁰Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast not need that any one should demand of thee. By this we believe that thou art come from God. ³¹Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? ³²Behold, the hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.