²Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

³Now you are 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, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

⁵I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

⁶If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.

⁷If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you.

⁸In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

⁹As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father’s commandments and do abide in his love.

¹¹These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.

¹²This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

¹³Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

¹⁵I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

¹⁶You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

¹⁷These things I command you, that you love one another.

¹⁸If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

¹⁹If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁰Remember my word that I said to you: The servant 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 yours also.

²¹But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him that sent me.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

²⁴If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁵But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

²⁶But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.

²⁷And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.

Chapter 16

These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be scandalized.

²They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

³And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

⁴But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

⁵But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?

⁶But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

⁷But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you.

⁸And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin and of justice and of judgment.

⁹Of sin: because they believed not in me.

¹⁰And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer.

¹¹And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.

¹²I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

¹³But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you.

¹⁴He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall shew it to you.

¹⁵All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said that he shall receive of me and shew it to you.

¹⁶A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.

¹⁷Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father?

¹⁸They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he speaketh.

¹⁹And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall see me?

²⁰Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

²¹A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

²²So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

²³And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.

²⁴Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.

²⁵These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

²⁶In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you.

²⁷For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.

²⁸I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.

²⁹His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.

³⁰Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

³¹Jesus answered them: Do you now believe?

³²Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you 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.

³³These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.

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