15. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away. Every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. I am the vine. Ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me he is a branch that is cut off and will wither. Men gather them and cast them into the fire to be burned. If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit and so shall ye be my disciples.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue in my love. If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends. If ye do whatever I command you, I call you not servants. The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth. But I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain so whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it you.
These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. But ye are not of the world. I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not Him that sent me.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would be innocent of sin. But now they have no cloke to hide their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass so that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. But when the Comforter comes, the Spirit of truth who proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me. And ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning.
16. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues. Yea, the time will come when whoever killeth you will think that he doeth God a service. And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor me.
But these things have I told you so that when the time comes, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning because I was with you. But now I go away to Him that sent me. And none of you asketh me, Whither goest Thou? But because I have said these things unto you sorrow hath filled your heart.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth, It is best for you that I go away. If I go not away the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you. When He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they believe not on me. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father and ye see me no more. Of judgment, because the evil one who is prince of this world is judged.
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. However, when the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth because He shall not speak of Himself. But whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak. And He will show you things to come. He shall glorify me for He shall receive my own, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said that He shall take my own and shall show it unto you. A little while and ye shall not see me. And then, in a little while, and ye shall see me because I go to the Father.
Then said some of His disciples among themselves, What is this that He saith unto us? A little while and ye shall not see me? And in a little while and ye shall see me because I go to the Father? They said therefore, What is this that He saith, A little while? we cannot tell what He saith. Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask Him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me, and in a little while, ye shall see me?