The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Part 25

(19)Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also. (20)In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (21)He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

(22)Judas says to him (not 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 loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

(24)He that loves me not, keeps not my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

(25)These things have I spoken to you, while abiding with you. (26)But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things which I said to you.

(27)Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (28)Ye heard how I said to you: I go away; and I come to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I. (29)And now I have told you before it comes to pa.s.s, that, when it is come to pa.s.s, ye may believe.

(30)I will no longer talk much with you; for the prince of the world comes, and in me he has nothing. (31)But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do.

Arise, let us go hence.

XV.

I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (2)Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he takes it away; and every one that bears fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit. (3)Ye are already clean, through the word which I have spoken to you.

(4)Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, if ye abide not in me. (5)I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because without me ye can do nothing. (6)If any one abide not in me, he is cast forth as the 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 whatever ye will, and it shall be done to you.

(8)Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye shall become my disciples. (9)As the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love. (10)If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

(11)These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy be made full. (12)This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I loved you. (13)Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. (14)Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.

(15)No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord does. But I have called you friends because all things that I heard from my Father I made known to you. (16)Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

(17)These things I command you, that ye love one another. (18)If the world hates you, ye know that it has 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, for this the world hates you. (20)Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my saying, 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 who sent me.

(22)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. (23)He that hates me hates my Father also. (24)If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. (25)But this comes to pa.s.s, 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 to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me. (27)And ye also shall bear witness, because ye are with me from the beginning.

XVI.

THESE things I have spoken to you, that ye should not be offended.

(2)They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, a time is coming, that every one who kills you will think he makes an offering to G.o.d.

(3)And these things they will do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. (4)But these things I have spoken to you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you. And these things I told you not from the beginning, because I was with you.

(5)And now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me: Whither goest thou? (6)But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. (7)But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I depart; for if I depart not, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (8)And when he is come, he will convict the world, in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; (9)of sin, in that they believe not on me; (10)of righteousness, in that I go to my Father, and ye behold me no more; (11)of judgment, in that the prince of this world has been judged.

(12)I have yet many things to say to you, but ye can not bear them now. (13)But when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but whatever he shall hear, that will he speak, and he will tell you the things to come. (14)He will glorify me; because he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you. (15)All things that the Father has are mine.

Therefore, I said, that he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you. (16)A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me.

(17)Therefore some of his disciples said to one another: What is this that he says to us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me; and, I go to the Father? (18)They said therefore: What is this that he says, A little while? We know not what he says.

(19)Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said to them: Do ye inquire of this with one another, 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 to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. (21)A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has borne the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. (22)And so ye now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

(23)And in that day ye shall ask nothing of me. Verily, verily, I say to you: Whatever ye shall ask of the Father, he will give it you in my name. (24)Hitherto ye asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

(25)These things I have spoken to you in parables. A time is coming, when I will no more speak to you in parables, but I will tell you plainly of the Father. (26)In that day ye shall ask in my name. And I say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you; (27)for the Father himself loves you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from G.o.d. (28)I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

(29)His disciples say to him: Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no parable. (30)Now we know that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any one should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from G.o.d.

(31)Jesus answered them: Do ye now believe? (32)Behold, an hour is coming, and has come, that ye will be scattered, each one to his own, and will leave me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

(33)These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace.

In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

XVII.

THESE words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee; (2)as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life. (3)And this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true G.o.d, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send. (4)I glorified thee on the earth; I finished the work which thou hast given 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 manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word. (7)Now they know that all things whatever thou hast given me are from thee; (8)because the words which thou gayest me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew in truth that I came forth from thee, and 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; because 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 longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are, (12)While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I watched over and none of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. (13)And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them. (14)I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, 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, 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, I also sent them into the world. (19)And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth. (20)And I pray not for these only, but also for those who believe on me through their word; (21)that all may be one; as thou, Father, 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 to me I have given to them, that they may be one, 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 as thou lovedst me.

(24)Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

(25)Righteous Father! And the world knew thee not! But I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me; (26)and I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

XVIII.

HAVING spoken these words, Jesus went out with his disciples beyond the brook Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered and his disciples. (2)And Judas also, his betrayer knew the place; because Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.

(3)Judas therefore, having received the band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes thither with torches and lamps and weapons. (4)Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them: Whom do ye seek? (5)They answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them: I am he. And Judas also, his betrayer, was standing with them.

(6)When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.

(7)Again therefore he asked them: Whom do ye seek? And they said: Jesus the Nazarene. (8)Jesus answered: I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way; (9)that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Of those whom thou hast given me, I lost none.

(10)Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. (11)Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the sheath. The cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?

(12)So the band, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took Jesus and bound him, (13)and led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. (14)And it was Caiaphas who counseled the Jews, that it is expedient that one man should die for the people.

(15)And Simon Peter and the other disciple followed Jesus. That disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest. (16)But Peter was standing at the door without. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. (17)Then the damsel that kept the door says to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He says: I am not.

(18)And the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and were warming themselves; and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.

(19)The high priest therefore asked Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching. (20)Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where all the Jews a.s.semble; and I spoke nothing in secret.

(21)Why askest thou me? Ask those who have heard, what I spoke to them. Behold, these know what things I said.

(22)And when he had said this, one of the officers who was standing by gave Jesus a blow on the face, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so? (23)Jesus answered him: If I spoke evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why dost thou smite me?