Part 25 (1/2)

(19)Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also. (20)In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (21)He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

(22)Judas says to him (not Iscariot): Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? (23)Jesus answered and said to him: If any one loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

(24)He that loves me not, keeps not my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

(25)These things have I spoken to you, while abiding with you. (26)But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things which I said to you.

(27)Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (28)Ye heard how I said to you: I go away; and I come to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I. (29)And now I have told you before it comes to pa.s.s, that, when it is come to pa.s.s, ye may believe.

(30)I will no longer talk much with you; for the prince of the world comes, and in me he has nothing. (31)But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do.

Arise, let us go hence.

XV.

I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (2)Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he takes it away; and every one that bears fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit. (3)Ye are already clean, through the word which I have spoken to you.

(4)Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, if ye abide not in me. (5)I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because without me ye can do nothing. (6)If any one abide not in me, he is cast forth as the branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (7)If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever ye will, and it shall be done to you.

(8)Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye shall become my disciples. (9)As the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love. (10)If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; 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 be in you, and your joy be made full. (12)This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I loved you. (13)Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. (14)Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.

(15)No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord does. But I have called you friends because all things that I heard from my Father I made known to you. (16)Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

(17)These things I command you, that ye love one another. (18)If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated me before it hated you.

(19)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, for this the world hates you. (20)Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

(21)But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me.

(22)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. (23)He that hates me hates my Father also. (24)If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. (25)But this comes to pa.s.s, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law: They hated me without a cause.

(26)But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me. (27)And ye also shall bear witness, because ye are with me from the beginning.

XVI.

THESE things I have spoken to you, that ye should not be offended.

(2)They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, a time is coming, that every one who kills you will think he makes an offering to G.o.d.

(3)And these things they will do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. (4)But these things I have spoken to you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you. And these things I told you not from the beginning, because I was with you.

(5)And now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me: Whither goest thou? (6)But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. (7)But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I depart; for if I depart not, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (8)And when he is come, he will convict the world, in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; (9)of sin, in that they believe not on me; (10)of righteousness, in that I go to my Father, and ye behold me no more; (11)of judgment, in that the prince of this world has been judged.

(12)I have yet many things to say to you, but ye can not bear them now. (13)But when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but whatever he shall hear, that will he speak, and he will tell you the things to come. (14)He will glorify me; because he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you. (15)All things that the Father has are mine.

Therefore, I said, that he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you. (16)A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me.

(17)Therefore some of his disciples said to one another: What is this that he says to us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me; and, I go to the Father? (18)They said therefore: What is this that he says, A little while? We know not what he says.