The Book of John: chapter 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father
is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every
branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Already ye are clean because of 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; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered;
and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall
ye be my disciples.
9 Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in
my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto
you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even 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 the things which I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his
lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard
from my Father, I have made known unto you.
16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should
go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye
shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated
you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye
are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world
hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than
his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they
kept my word, 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 unto them, they had not had sin: but now
they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other 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 may 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 bear
witness of me:
27 and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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1 These things have I spoken unto
you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that
whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
3 And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father,
nor me.
4 But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come,
ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not
unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.
5 But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither
goest thou?
6 But because I have spoken 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 go, I will send him unto you.
8 And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and
of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 of sin, because they believe not on me;
10 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;
11 of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been 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 shall guide you into
all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever
he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the
things that are to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it
unto you.
15 All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that
he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you.
16 A little while, and ye behold me no more; and again a little while,
and ye shall see me.
17 Some of his disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that
he saith unto us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little
while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We
know not what he saith.
19 Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto
them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little
while, and ye behold me not, 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: 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 when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish,
for the joy that a man is born into the world.
22 And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your
heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you.
23 And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily, verily, I say unto
you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my
name.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy may be made full.
25 These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh,
when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you
plainly of the Father.
26 In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I
will pray the Father for you;
27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have
believed that I came forth from the Father.
28 I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave
the world, and go unto the Father.
29 His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark
saying.
30 Now know we 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 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.
33 These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In
the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the
world.
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1 These things spake Jesus; and
lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify
thy Son, that the son may glorify thee:
2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh,
that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.
3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God,
and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
4 I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished
the work which thou hast given me to do.
5 And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was.
6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest
me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they
have kept thy word.
7 Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from
thee:
8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received
them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed
that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for
those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:
10 and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am
glorified in them.
11 And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come
to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that
they may be one, even as we are.
12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given
me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition;
that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 But now I come to thee; and these things I speak
in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world 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 from the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may
be sanctified in truth.
20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them
also that believe on me through their word;
21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in
thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou
didst send me.
22 And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that
they may be one, even as we are one;
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that
the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou
lovedst me.
24 Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast
given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou
hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these
knew that thou didst send me;
26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the
love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
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1 When Jesus had spoken these words,
he went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden,
into which he entered, himself and his disciples.
2 Now Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus oft-times
resorted thither with his disciples.
3 Judas then, having received the band of soldiers, and officers from the
chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches
and weapons.
4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went
forth, and saith unto them, Whom seek ye?
5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing
with them.
6 When therefore he said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell
to the ground.
7 Again therefore he asked them, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of
Nazareth.
8 Jesus answered, I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let
these go their way:
9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, Of those whom thou hast
given me I lost not one.
10 Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's
servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus.
11 Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the
cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
12 So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, seized
Jesus and bound him,
13 and led him to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, who
was high priest that year.
14 Now Caiaphas was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient
that one man should die for the people.
15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that
disciple was known unto the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into
the court of the high priest;
16 but Peter was standing at the door without. So the other disciple, who
was known unto the high priest, went out and spake unto her that kept the
door, and brought in Peter.
17 The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto Peter, Art thou also
one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.
18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a
fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves: and Peter
also was with them, standing and warming himself.
19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
20 Jesus answered him, I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught
in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and
in secret spake I nothing.
21 Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard me, what I spake unto them:
behold, these know the things which I said.
22 And when he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus
with his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil:
but if well, why smitest thou me?
24 Annas therefore sent him bound
unto Caiaphas the high priest.
25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore
unto him, Art thou also one of his disciples? He denied, and said, I am
not.
26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose
ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
27 Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.
28 They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it
was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they
might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
29 Pilate therefore went out unto
them, and saith, What accusation bring ye against this man?
30 They answered and said unto him, If this man were not an evildoer, we
should not have delivered him up unto thee.
31 Pilate therefore said unto them, Take him yourselves, and judge him
according to your law. The Jews said unto him, It is not lawful for us
to put any man to death:
32 that the word of Jesus might
be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should
die.
33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus,
and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
34 Jesus answered, Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee
concerning me?
35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests
delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were
of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered
to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered,
Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this
end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he
went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find no crime in him.
39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover:
will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
40 They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.
Now Barabbas was a robber.)
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