[14:23] Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. [14:24] He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me. [14:25] I have said these things to you, while still living with you. [14:26] But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. [14:27] Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. [14:28] You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I. [14:29] Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. [14:30] I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. [14:31] But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
[15:1] "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. [15:2] Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. [15:3] You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. [15:4] Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. [15:5] I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. [15:6] If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. [15:7] If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
[15:8] "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. [15:9] Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. [15:10] If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love. [15:11] I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
[15:12] "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. [15:13] Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. [15:14] You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. [15:15] No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. [15:16] You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
[15:17] "I command these things to you, that you may love one another. [15:18] If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. [15:19] If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. [15:20] 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 word, they will keep yours also. [15:21] But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me. [15:22] If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. [15:23] He who hates me, hates my Father also. [15:24] If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. [15:25] But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'[*]
[15:26] "When the [Counselor] has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. [15:27] You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
[16:1] "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble. [16:2] They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. [16:3] They will do these things[*] because they have not known the Father, nor me. [16:4] But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. [16:5] But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' [16:6] But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. [16:7] Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. [16:8] When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; [16:9] about sin, because they don't believe in me; [16:10] about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more; [16:11] about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
[16:12] "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now. [16:13] However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. [16:14] He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. [16:15] All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he [takes] of mine, and will declare it to you. [16:16] A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."
[16:17] Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'" [16:18] They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."
[16:19] Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?' [16:20] Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. [16:21] A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. [16:22] Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.