John 15:1–16:33

¹‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; ²every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit; ³already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you; ⁴remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

⁵‘I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything; ⁶if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned; ⁷if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

⁸‘In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

⁹According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love; ¹⁰if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love; ¹¹these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full. ¹²‘This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; ¹³greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; ¹⁴ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you; ¹⁵no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

¹⁶‘Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

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

¹⁸If the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; ¹⁹if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you. ²⁰‘Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep; ²¹but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me; ²²if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

²³‘He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; ²⁴if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; ²⁵but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated me without a cause.

²⁶‘And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me; ²⁷and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

Chapter 16

¹‘These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled, ²out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God; ³and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

⁴‘But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said them to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you; ⁵and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go? ⁶but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

⁷‘But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you; ⁸and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment; ⁹concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me; ¹¹and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

¹²‘I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now; ¹³and when He may come—the Spirit of truth—He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you; ¹⁴He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

¹⁵‘All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell 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 unto the Father.’ ¹⁷Therefore said some of his disciples one to another, ‘What is this that he saith 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 unto the Father?’ ¹⁸they said then, ‘What is this he saith—the little while? we have not known what he saith.’ ¹⁹Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, ‘Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you 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, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become. ²¹‘The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

²²‘And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you.

²³And in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you; ²⁴till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵‘These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

²⁶‘In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you, ²⁷for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

²⁸I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.’ ²⁹His disciples say to him, ‘Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou; ³⁰now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.’ ³¹Jesus answered them, ‘Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour, ³²and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me; ³³these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage—I have overcome the world.’

Chapter 17