²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(A) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^{(B) 24} Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.^(C)

²⁵ “All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate,^(D) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,^(E) will teach you all things^(F) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.^{(G) 27} Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.^(H) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled^(I) and do not be afraid.

²⁸ “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’^(J) If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,^(K) for the Father is greater than I.^{(L) 29} I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.^{(M) 30} I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world^(N) is coming. He has no hold over me, ³¹ but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.^(O)

“Come now; let us leave.