A New Commandment

³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus said, ^(A)“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and ^(B)God is glorified in him. ³² If God is glorified in him, ^(C)God will also glorify him in himself, and ^(D)glorify him at once. ³³ Little children, ^(E)yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just ^(F)as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ ^34 (G)A new commandment ^(H)I give to you, ^(I)that you love one another: ^(J)just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. ^35 (K)By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus Foretells Peter's Denial

³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” ^(L)Jesus answered him, “Where I am going ^(M)you cannot follow me now, ^(N)but you will follow afterward.” ^37 (O)Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” ³⁸ Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(P)the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

14 ^(Q)“Let not your hearts be troubled. ^(R)Believe in God;^[a] believe also in me. ² In ^(S)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that ^(T)I go to prepare a place for you?^{[b] 3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you ^(U)to myself, that ^(V)where I am you may be also. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going.”^{[c] 5 (W)}Thomas said to him, “Lord, ^(X)we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am ^(Y)the way, and ^(Z)the truth, and ^(AA)the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ^7 (AB)If you had known me, you would have ^(AC)known my Father also.^[d] From now on you do know him and ^(AD)have seen him.”

^8 (AE)Philip said to him, “Lord, ^(AF)show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? ^(AG)Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(AH)I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you ^(AI)I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹ Believe me that ^(AJ)I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else ^(AK)believe on account of the works themselves.

¹² “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AL)whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I ^(AM)am going to the Father. ^13 (AN)Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that ^(AO)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ^14 (AP)If you ask me^[e] anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

^15 (AQ)“If you love me, you will ^(AR)keep my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another ^(AS)Helper,^[f] to be with you forever, ¹⁷ even ^(AT)the Spirit of truth, ^(AU)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and ^(AV)will be^[g] in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(AW)I will come to you. ^19 (AX)Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ^(AY)you will see me. ^(AZ)Because I live, you also will live. ^20 (BA)In that day you will know that ^(BB)I am in my Father, and ^(BC)you in me, and ^(BD)I in you. ^21 (BE)Whoever has my commandments and ^(BF)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^(BG)he who loves me ^(BH)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ^(BI)manifest myself to him.” ^22 (BJ)Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it ^(BK)that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered him, ^(BL)“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^(BM)we will come to him and ^(BN)make our home with him. ²⁴ Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And ^(BO)the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the ^(BP)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(BQ)whom the Father will send in my name, ^(BR)he will teach you all things and ^(BS)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ^27 (BT)Peace I leave with you; ^(BU)my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(BV)Let not your hearts be troubled, neither ^(BW)let them be afraid. ^28 (BX)You heard me say to you, ^(BY)‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ^(BZ)am going to the Father, for ^(CA)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And ^(CB)now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for ^(CC)the ruler of this world is coming. ^(CD)He has no claim on me, ³¹ but I do ^(CE)as the Father has commanded me, ^(CF)so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the ^(CG)true vine, and my Father is ^(CH)the vinedresser. ^2 (CI)Every branch in me that does not bear fruit ^(CJ)he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, ^(CK)that it may bear more fruit. ³ Already ^(CL)you are clean ^(CM)because of the word that I have spoken to you. ^4 (CN)Abide ^(CO)in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine; ^(CP)you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that ^(CQ)bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me ^(CR)he is thrown away like a branch and withers; ^(CS)and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If ^(CT)you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ^(CU)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ^8 (CV)By this my Father is glorified, that you ^(CW)bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. ^9 (CX)As the Father has loved me, ^(CY)so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ^10 (CZ)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ^(DA)I have kept ^(DB)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, ^(DC)that my joy may be in you, and that ^(DD)your joy may be full.

^12 (DE)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (DF)Greater love has no one than this, ^(DG)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(DH)my friends ^(DI)if you do what I command you. ^15 (DJ)No longer do I call you servants,^[h] for the servant ^(DK)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(DL)all that I have heard from my Father ^(DM)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(DN)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(DO)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(DP)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, ^(DQ)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18 (DR)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19 (DS)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(DT)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ^(DU)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(DV)they will also persecute you. ^(DW)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But ^(DX)all these things they will do to you ^(DY)on account of my name, ^(DZ)because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(EA)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[i] but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (EB)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ^24 (EC)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(ED)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(EE)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But ^(EF)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(EG)‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶ “But ^(EH)when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^(EI)he will bear witness about me. ²⁷ And ^(EJ)you also will bear witness, ^(EK)because you have been with me ^(EL)from the beginning.

16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. ^2 (EM)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ^(EN)the hour is coming when ^(EO)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. ³ And they will do these things ^(EP)because they have not known the Father, nor me. ⁴ But ^(EQ)I have said these things to you, that when ^(ER)their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, ^(ES)because I was with you. ⁵ But now ^(ET)I am going to him who sent me, and ^(EU)none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, ^(EV)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for ^(EW)if I do not go away, ^(EX)the Helper will not come to you. But ^(EY)if ^(EZ)I go, ^(FA)I will send him to you. ^8 (FB)And when he comes, he will ^(FC)convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ concerning sin, ^(FD)because they do not believe in me; ^10 (FE)concerning righteousness, ^(FF)because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; ^11 (FG)concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world ^(FH)is judged.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ When ^(FI)the Spirit of truth comes, ^(FJ)he will ^(FK)guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but ^(FL)whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴ He will ^(FM)glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. ^15 (FN)All that the Father has is mine; ^(FO)therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

^16 (FP)“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and ^(FQ)again a little while, and you will see me.” ¹⁷ So ^(FR)some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ^(FS)‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ^(FT)‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸ So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? ^(FU)We do not know what he is talking about.” ^19 (FV)Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(FW)you will weep and lament, but ^(FX)the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but ^(FY)your sorrow will turn into joy. ^21 (FZ)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ^22 (GA)So also you have sorrow now, but ^(GB)I will see you again, and ^(GC)your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. ^23 (GD)In that day you will ^(GE)ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(GF)whatever you ask of the Father in my name, ^(GG)he will give it to you. ²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. ^(GH)Ask, and you will receive, ^(GI)that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ^(GJ)The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; ^27 (GK)for the Father himself loves you, because ^(GL)you have loved me and ^(GM)have believed that I came from God.^{[j] 28 (GN)}I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ^(GO)I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not ^(GP)using figurative speech! ³⁰ Now we know that ^(GQ)you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that ^(GR)you came from God.” ³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³² Behold, ^(GS)the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when ^(GT)you will be scattered, each to his own home, and ^(GU)will leave me alone. ^(GV)Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³ I have said these things to you, that ^(GW)in me you may have peace. ^(GX)In the world you will have ^(GY)tribulation. But ^(GZ)take heart; ^(HA)I have overcome the world.”

The High Priestly Prayer

17 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(HB)he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ^(HC)the hour has come; ^(HD)glorify your Son that the Son may ^(HE)glorify you, ² since ^(HF)you have given him authority over all flesh, ^(HG)to give eternal life to all ^(HH)whom you have given him. ^3 (HI)And this is eternal life, ^(HJ)that they know you, ^(HK)the only ^(HL)true God, and ^(HM)Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴ I ^(HN)glorified you on earth, ^(HO)having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, ^(HP)glorify me in your own presence with the glory ^(HQ)that I had with you ^(HR)before the world existed.

^6 (HS)“I have manifested your name to the people ^(HT)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(HU)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything ^(HV)that you have given me is from you. ⁸ For I have given them ^(HW)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(HX)I came from you; and ^(HY)they have believed that you sent me. ⁹ I am praying for them. ^(HZ)I am not praying for the world but for those ^(IA)whom you have given me, for ^(IB)they are yours. ^10 (IC)All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ^(ID)I am glorified in them. ¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but ^(IE)they are in the world, and ^(IF)I am coming to you. ^(IG)Holy Father, ^(IH)keep them in your name, ^(II)which you have given me, ^(IJ)that they may be one, ^(IK)even as we are one. ^12 (IL)While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^(IM)guarded them, and ^(IN)not one of them has been lost except ^(IO)the son of destruction, ^(IP)that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now ^(IQ)I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have ^(IR)my joy fulfilled in themselves. ^14 (IS)I have given them your word, and ^(IT)the world has hated them ^(IU)because they are not of the world, ^(IV)just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I ^(IW)do not ask that you ^(IX)take them out of the world, but that you ^(IY)keep them from ^(IZ)the evil one.^{[k] 16 (JA)}They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ^17 (JB)Sanctify them^[l] in the truth; ^(JC)your word is truth. ^18 (JD)As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And ^(JE)for their sake ^(JF)I consecrate myself,^[m] that they also ^(JG)may be sanctified^[n] in truth.

²⁰ “I do not ^(JH)ask for these only, but also for those ^(JI)who will believe in me through their word, ^21 (JJ)that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that ^(JK)they also may be in ^(JL)us, so that the world ^(JM)may believe that you have sent me. ^22 (JN)The glory that you have given me ^(JO)I have given to them, ^(JP)that they may be one even as we are one, ^23 (JQ)I in them and you in me, ^(JR)that they may become perfectly one, ^(JS)so that the world may know that you sent me and ^(JT)loved them even as ^(JU)you loved me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^(JV)with me ^(JW)where I am, ^(JX)to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^(JY)before the foundation of the world. ^25 (JZ)O righteous Father, even though ^(KA)the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ^26 (KB)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^(KC)with which you have loved me may be in them, and ^(KD)I in them.”