Part 24

014:016 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

014:017 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

014:018 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

014:019 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

014:020 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.

014:021 He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

014:022 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?"

014:023 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

014:024 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

014:025 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you.

014:026 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.

014:027 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

014:028 "You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

014:029 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe.

014:030 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

014:031 but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

015:001 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.

015:002 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

015:003 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.

015:004 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

015:005 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

015:006 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

015:007 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.

015:008 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.

015:009 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

015:010 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

015:011 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

015:012 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.