John 13:31–17:26

Christ Announces His Departure

³¹So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, ^f“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and ^gGod is glorified in Him. ³²If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and ^hglorify Him immediately. ³³Little children, I shall be with you a ⁱlittle while longer. You will seek Me; ^jand as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you. ^34kA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ^35lBy this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Christ Foretells Peter’s Denial

Matt. 26:34, 35; Mark 14:30, 31; Luke 22:33, 34

³⁶Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?”

Jesus answered him, “Where I ^mam going you cannot follow Me now, but ⁿyou shall follow Me afterward.”

³⁷Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will ^olay down my life for Your sake.”

³⁸Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not ^pcrow till you have denied Me three times.

Christ Comforts His Disciples

14“Let ^anot your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ²In My Father’s house are many ¹mansions; if it were not so, ²I would have told you. ^bI go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^cI will come again and receive you to Myself; that ^dwhere I am, there you may be also. ⁴And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Christ Answers Thomas

^5eThomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am ^fthe way, ^gthe truth, and ^hthe life. ⁱNo one comes to the Father ^jexcept through Me.

^7k“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

Christ Answers Philip

⁸Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? ^lHe who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that ^mI am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you ⁿI do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, ^oor else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

^12p“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ^13qAnd whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be ^rglorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ³ask anything in My name, I will do it.

^15s“If you love Me, ⁴keep My commandments. ¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and ^tHe will give you another ⁵Helper, that He may abide with you forever—^17uthe Spirit of truth, ^vwhom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you ^wand will be in you. ^18xI will not leave you orphans; ^yI will come to you.

¹⁹“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but ^zyou will see Me. ^aBecause I live, you will live also. ²⁰At that day you will know that ^bI am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ^21cHe who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and ⁶manifest Myself to him.”

Christ Answers Judas

^22dJudas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

²³Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, ^eand We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and ^fthe word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶But ^gthe ⁷Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will ^hsend in My name, ⁱHe will teach you all things, and bring to your ^jremembrance all things that I said to you. ^27kPeace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸You have heard Me ^lsay to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because ⁸I said, ^m‘I am going to the Father,’ for ⁿMy Father is greater than I.

²⁹“And ^onow I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, ^pfor the ruler of this world is coming, and he has ^qnothing in Me. ³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father, and ^ras the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

The Relationship of Believers to Christ

15“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ^2aEvery branch in Me that does not bear fruit He ¹takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear ^bmore fruit. ^3cYou are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ^4dAbide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much ^efruit; for without Me you can do ^fnothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in Me, ^ghe is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷If you abide in Me, and My words ^habide in you, ⁱyou ²will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ^8jBy this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; ^kso you will be My disciples.

⁹“As the Father ^lloved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10mIf you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ⁿthat your joy may be full.

The Relationship of Believers to Each Other

^12oThis is My ^pcommandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13qGreater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14rYou are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^sfor all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16tYou did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^uappointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^vin My name He may give you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that you love one another.

The Relationship of Believers to the World

^18w“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19xIf you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^ybecause you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you, ^z‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^aIf they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹But ^ball these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ^22cIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, ^dbut now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23eHe who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴If I had not done among them ^fthe works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^gseen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ^h‘They hated Me without a cause.’

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

²⁶ⁱ“But when the ³Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^jHe will testify of Me. ²⁷And ^kyou also will bear witness, because ^lyou have been with Me from the beginning.

16“These things I have spoken to you, that you ^ashould not be made to stumble. ^2bThey will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming ^cthat whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. ³And ^dthese things they will do ¹to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. ⁴But these things I have told you, that when ²the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.

“And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵“But now I ^ego away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ⁶But because I have said these things to you, ^fsorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but ^gif I depart, I will send Him to you. ⁸And when He has ^hcome, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ⁱof sin, because they do not believe in Me; ^10jof righteousness, ^kbecause I go to My Father and you see Me no more; ^11lof judgment, because ^mthe ruler of this world is judged.

¹²“I still have many things to say to you, ⁿbut you cannot bear them now. ¹³However, when He, ^othe Spirit of truth, has come, ^pHe will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. ^14qHe will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. ^15rAll things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He ³will take of Mine and declare it to you.

The Prediction of Christ’s Death and Resurrection

¹⁶“A ^slittle while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, ^tbecause I go to the Father.”

¹⁷Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” ¹⁸They said therefore, “What is this that He…