Christ's love to his members. ST. JOHN. Comforts against tribulation. 2 Every branch in me that beareth, but now they have no cloke for their not fruit, he taketh away; and every sin. branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in ine. 5 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. 6 If a man able not in me, he is cast forth as a branen, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words ahide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shal! be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified that ye hear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love; even as have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is ny commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for 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. 23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. 24 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 me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, 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 unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me : 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. CHAP. XVI. THESE things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time comech, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of thein. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me. Whither goest thou? 6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow, hath filled your heart. 7 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. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, 8 And when he is come, he will rethat ye should go, and bring forth prove the world of sin, and of rightfruit, and that your fruit should re-eousness, and of judgment: main that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, ne may give it you 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted ine, they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken nto them, they had not had sin: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on ine; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and snall shew it unto you. 15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said 1, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 16 A little while, and ye shall no Exhortation to prayer. CHAP. XVII. Christ prayeth for his sciples. CHAP. XVII. see me and again a little while, and, ye shall see me, because I go to the THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father. 17 Then said some of his disciples Father, the hour is come; glorify among themselves, What is this that thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify he saith unto us, A little while, and thee: ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see ine: and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We cannot tell what he saith. 19 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 again a little while, and ye shall see me? 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, be will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you In proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name and I say not unto you, that 1 will pray the Father for you. 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. 29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. 30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. 31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye 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. 2 As thou nast given him power over all flesh, that be should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gayest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me: and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 91 pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given we; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, 1 kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest ine I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word: and the world bath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify in the world ye shall have tribulation: myself, that they also might be sanctibut be of good cheer; I have over-fied through the truth. come the world 40 Neither pray I for these alone 4 Jesus is betrayed. ST. JOHN. Peter denicth Chris. but for them also which shall believe) and officers of the Jews took Jesus, on me through their word; and bound him, 21 That they all may be one; as 13 And led him away to Annas first: thou, Father, art in me, and 1 in thee, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas that they also may be one in us: that which was the bigh priest that same the world may believe that thou hast year. sent nie. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one, even as we are one : 23 in them, aed thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 14 Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expe dient that one man should die for the people. 15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple, that disciple was known unto the Ligh priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 24 Father, I will that they also, 16 But Peter stood at the door withwhom thou hast given me, be with me our. Then went out that other disc where I am; that they may behold mype, which was known unto the high glory, which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 Ard 1 have declared unto them by name, and will declare it that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. CHAP. XVIII. WHEN Jesus and spoken these words, be went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a parden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. 17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not. 18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; or it was cold and they warmed themselves and Peter stood them, and warmed himself. 19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples and of bis doctrine. 20 Jesus answered him, spate openly to the world I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort, and in secret have I said nothing. 2 And Judas al-o, which betrayed 21 Why ashest thou me Ask them bim, new the place, for Jesus oft- which heard me, what I have said times resorted thither with has disci-unto them: behold, they know what ples. I said. 3 Judas then, having received a 29 And when he had thus spoken, band of men and othcers from the chief one of the officers which stood by. priests and Pharisees, cometh thi-struck Jesus with the palm of his ther with lanterns and torches and hand, saying, Answerest thou the high weapons. priest so 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things! that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom Scek ye? 5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed hun, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and sell to the ground. 23 Jesus answered him, I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: bu if well, why smitest thou me 24 (Now Annas had sent him unto Caiaphas the high priest.) ound 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Ait not thor also o. of his disciples? 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