Jesus…said unto Judas, (not Iscariot), "You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe.

"From now on I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise let us go from here." And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives.

Then said Jesus unto them, "All of you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.’ But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee."

Peter answered and said unto him, "Though all men shall be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended."

And the Lord said, "Peter, Peter, look, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not: and when you are converted, strengthen your brethren."

And Peter said unto him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you, both into prison, and to death."

And Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that you shall three times deny that you know me."

Peter said unto him, "Though I should die with you, yet will I not deny you." Likewise also said all the disciples.

And Jesus said unto them, "When I sent you without purse, and bag, and shoes, lacked you anything?"

And they said, "Nothing."

Then said Jesus unto them, "But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his bag: and he that has no sword, let him sell his cloak, and buy one. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, ‘And he was numbered among the transgressors’: for the things concerning me have a fulfillment."

And they said, "Lord, look, here are two swords."

And he said unto them, "It is enough."

And Jesus came out, and went, as he was accustomed, to the Mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. And he said unto them…. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he cleans it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it remain in the vine; no more can you, except you remain in me.

"I am the vine, you are the branches: He that remains in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If a man remains not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love. If you keep my commandments, you shall remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain 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 you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. From here on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

"These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates 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 had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. He that hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both my Father and me.

"But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me: And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning."

Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, "These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that whoever kills you will think that he does God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, or me. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, you 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 my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me, where go you? But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And 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 you see me no more;
• "Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

"I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.

"A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father."

Then said some of his disciples among themselves, "What is this that he said unto us, ‘A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me: and, because I go to the Father? …We cannot tell what he said."

Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, "Do you inquire among yourselves of what I said, ‘A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me?’ Truly, truly, I say unto you, that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

"A woman when she is in labor has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you.

"And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say unto you, whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Until now have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.

"At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

Jesus disciples said unto him, "Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb. Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God."

Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? Look, the hour comes, yes, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you: As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

"I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to do. And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory, which I had with you before the world was.

"I have revealed your name unto the men which you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word. Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are of you. For I have given unto them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me.

"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours. And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.

"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

"I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me. And the glory, which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.

"Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

"O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."

REFERENCES

John 14:23a; John 14: 22a, 28-31; Matthew 26:30-33; Luke 22:31-34; Matthew 26:35; Luke 22:35-38; Luke 22:39-40a; John 15:1-27; John 8:12a; John 16:1-33; John 17:1-26.

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