cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee. 38 JESUS answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen, amen I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice. CHAP. XIV. Conclusion of Christ's last discourse. 2 In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you, that I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if 1 shall go, and prepare a place for you: I will come again, and will take you to myself, that where I am, you also may be. 4 And whither I go you know, and the way you know. 5 Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 JESUS saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. 7 If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father also: and from henceforth you shall know him, and you have seen him. 8 Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father, and it is enough for us. 9 JESUS saith to him: So long a time have I been with you; and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me,seeth the Father also. How sayest thou, shew us the Father? 10 Do you not believe, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works. 11 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? 12 Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do, and greater than these shall he do. 13 Because I go to the Father, and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do : that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do. 15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you forever. 17 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not nor knoweth him : but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans: will come to you. : I 20 In that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them: he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22 Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it, that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? 23 JESUS answered, and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him: 24 He that loveth me not, keep Ver. 16. Paraclete. That is, a comforter: or also an advocate; inasmuch as by inspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. Ver. 16. For ever. Hence it is evident that this Spirit of truth was not only promised to the persons of the apostles, but also to their successors through all generations. unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. eth not my words. And the word branch cannot bear fruit of itself, which you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me. 25 These things have 1 spoken to you, abiding with you. 26 But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. 28 You have heard that I said to you: I go away and I come unto you. If you loved me, you would indeed be glad because I go to the Father: For the Father is greater than I. 5 I am the vine; you the branches he that abideth in me, and I in him,the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. 6 If any one abide not in me: he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gathe him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love. ; 29 And now I have told you be- 10 If you keep my commandfore it come to pass: that when it ments, you shall abide in my love shall come to pass, you may believe. as I also have kept my Father's 30 I will not now speak many commandments, and do abide in things with you. For the prince of his love. this world cometh, and in me he 11 These things I have spoken hath not any thing. to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandment,so do I: Arise, let us go hence. CHAP. XV. A continuation of Christ's discourse. I AM the true vine: and my Fa ther is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away : and every one that beareth fruit he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now you are clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me: and I in you. Asthe 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. 15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have ap Ver. 26. Teach you all things. Note that the Holy Ghost is here promised to the apostles and their successors, particularly in order to teach them all truth, and to preserve them from error. Ver. 28. Greater than I. Christ as man is inferior to the Father: and even as God, has his being from him, by an eternal procession; but this without any detriment to his being perfectly equal, inasmuch as he has the self same divinity. you pointed you, that should go, and should bring forth fruit: and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. 18 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. 19 If you had been of the world; the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have 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 that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But that the word may be fulfilled, which is written in their law: They hated me without cause. scandalized. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God. 3 And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things I have told you: that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. 5 But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? 6 But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go: for if 1 go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment. : 9 Of sin because they believed not in me. 10 And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer. 11 And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already 26 But when the Paraclete co-judged. meth whom I will send you from the 12 I have yet many things to say Father, the Spirit of Truth, who to you: but you cannot bear them proceedeth from the Father, he shall now. give tesimony of me: 27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. 18 But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he Ver. 26. Whom I will send. This proves against some modern Greeks, that the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Son, as well as from the Father: otherwise he could not be sent by the Son. Ver. 13. Will teach you all truth. See the annotation on Chap. xiv. 26. p. 135, shall hear, he shall speak; and the you shall receive; that your joy things that are to come he shall shew may be full. you. 14 He shall glorify me; because he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it to you. 15 All things whatsoever the Father hath, are mine. Therefore I said, that he shall receive of mine, and shew it to you. 16 A little while, and now you shall not see me and again a little while, and you shall see me because I go to the Father. 25 These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father. 26 In that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you, that I will ask the Father for you. 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 17 Then some of his disciples 28 I came forth from the Father, said one to another: What is this that and am come into the world: again he saith to us: a little while, and I leave the world, and I go to the you shall not see me and again a Father. little while, and you 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 speaketh. 19 And JESUS knew that they had a mind to ask him; and he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me and again a little while, and you shall see me. 20 Amen, amen I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 29 His disciples say to him: Behold now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no proverb. 30 Now we know that thou knowest all things, and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou comest forth from God. 31 JESUS answered them: Do you now believe? 32 Behold the hour cometh, and it 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. 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress; but have confidence, I have overcome the world. 21 A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy CHAP. XVII. that a man is born into the world. Christ's prayer for his disciples. 22 So also you now indeed have HESE things JESUS spoke, sorrow, but I will see you again, and and lifting up his eyes to heayour heart shall rejoice; and your ven, he said: Father, the hour is joy no man shall take from you. come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. 23 And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen I say to you if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask and TH 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all, whom thou hast given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: That they may 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 glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee. 6 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them: and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are from thee: 8 Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them: and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me : because they are thine; 10 And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father keep them in thy name, whom thou hast given me that they may be one, as we also are. 12 While I was with them, kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have 1 kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled. 13 And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that] thou shouldst keep them from evil. 16 They are not of the world : as I also am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for them do I sanctify myself: that they also may be sanctified in truth. 20 And not for them only do 1 pray,but for them also who through their word shall believe in me: 21 That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee: that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that they may be one, as we also are one. 23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one; and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me. 24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world. 25 Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee: and these have known, that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have made known thy name to them, and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them. CHAP. XVIII. things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his dis ciples. 2 And Judas also, who betrayed |