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Jesus, a videira

15 Jesus disse:

— Eu sou a videira verdadeira, e o meu Pai é o lavrador. Todos os ramos que não dão uvas ele corta, embora eles estejam em mim. Mas os ramos que dão uvas ele poda a fim de que fiquem limpos e deem mais uvas ainda. Vocês já estão limpos por meio dos ensinamentos que eu lhes tenho dado. Continuem unidos comigo, e eu continuarei unido com vocês. Pois, assim como o ramo só dá uvas quando está unido com a planta, assim também vocês só podem dar fruto se ficarem unidos comigo.

— Eu sou a videira, e vocês são os ramos. Quem está unido comigo e eu com ele, esse dá muito fruto porque sem mim vocês não podem fazer nada. Quem não ficar unido comigo será jogado fora e secará; será como os ramos secos que são juntados e jogados no fogo, onde são queimados. Se vocês ficarem unidos comigo, e as minhas palavras continuarem em vocês, vocês receberão tudo o que pedirem. E a natureza gloriosa do meu Pai se revela quando vocês produzem muitos frutos e assim mostram que são meus discípulos. Assim como o meu Pai me ama, eu amo vocês; portanto, continuem unidos comigo por meio do meu amor por vocês. 10 Se obedecerem aos meus mandamentos, eu continuarei amando vocês, assim como eu obedeço aos mandamentos do meu Pai e ele continua a me amar.

11 — Eu estou dizendo isso para que a minha alegria esteja em vocês, e a alegria de vocês seja completa. 12 O meu mandamento é este: amem uns aos outros como eu amo vocês. 13 Ninguém tem mais amor pelos seus amigos do que aquele que dá a sua vida por eles. 14 Vocês são meus amigos se fazem o que eu mando. 15 Eu não chamo mais vocês de empregados, pois o empregado não sabe o que o seu patrão faz; mas chamo vocês de amigos, pois tenho dito a vocês tudo o que ouvi do meu Pai. 16 Não foram vocês que me escolheram; pelo contrário, fui eu que os escolhi para que vão e deem fruto e que esse fruto não se perca. Isso a fim de que o Pai lhes dê tudo o que pedirem em meu nome. 17 O que eu mando a vocês é isto: amem uns aos outros.

Os seguidores de Jesus serão perseguidos

18 Jesus continuou:

— Se o mundo odeia vocês, lembrem que ele me odiou primeiro. 19 Se vocês fossem do mundo, o mundo os amaria por vocês serem dele. Mas eu os escolhi entre as pessoas do mundo, e vocês não são mais dele. Por isso o mundo odeia vocês. 20 Lembrem do que eu disse: “O empregado não é mais importante do que o patrão”. Se as pessoas que são do mundo me perseguiram, também perseguirão vocês; se elas obedeceram aos meus ensinamentos, também obedecerão aos ensinamentos de vocês. 21 Por causa de mim, essas pessoas vão lhes fazer tudo isso porque não conhecem aquele que me enviou. 22 Elas não teriam nenhum pecado se eu não tivesse vindo e falado a elas. Mas agora essas pessoas não têm desculpa para o seu pecado. 23 Quem me odeia odeia também o meu Pai. 24 Se eu não tivesse feito entre elas essas coisas que nenhum outro fez, elas não teriam nenhum pecado. Mas agora viram o que eu fiz e continuam a odiar tanto a mim como o meu Pai. 25 Mas isso é para que se cumpra o que está escrito na Lei deles: “Eles me odiaram sem motivo.”

26 — Quando chegar o Auxiliador, o Espírito da verdade, que vem do Pai, ele falará a respeito de mim. E sou eu quem enviará esse Auxiliador a vocês da parte do Pai. 27 E vocês também falarão a meu respeito porque estão comigo desde o começo.

The Vine and the Branches

15 1-3 “I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn’t bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already pruned back by the message I have spoken.

“Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me.

5-8 “I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples.

9-10 “I’ve loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you’ll remain intimately at home in my love. That’s what I’ve done—kept my Father’s commands and made myself at home in his love.

11-15 “I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you do the things I command you. I’m no longer calling you servants because servants don’t understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I’ve named you friends because I’ve let you in on everything I’ve heard from the Father.

16 “You didn’t choose me, remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won’t spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation to me, he gives you.

17 “But remember the root command: Love one another.

Hated by the World

18-19 “If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me. If you lived on the world’s terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God’s terms and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to hate you.

20 “When that happens, remember this: Servants don’t get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them.

21-25 “They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don’t know the One who sent me. If I hadn’t come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn’t be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse. Hate me, hate my Father—it’s all the same. If I hadn’t done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn’t be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father. Interesting—they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, ‘They hated me for no good reason.’

26-27 “When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes—the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father—he will confirm everything about me. You, too, from your side must give your confirming evidence, since you are in this with me from the start.”

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am(A) the true vine,(B) and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,(C) while every branch that does bear fruit(D) he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.(E) Remain in me, as I also remain in you.(F) No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;(G) apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.(H) If you remain in me(I) and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.(J) This is to my Father’s glory,(K) that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.(L)

“As the Father has loved me,(M) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands,(N) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.(O) 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.(P) 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.(Q) 14 You are my friends(R) if you do what I command.(S) 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.(T) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you(U) so that you might go and bear fruit(V)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.(W) 17 This is my command: Love each other.(X)

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you,(Y) keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you(Z) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(AA) 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[b](AB) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.(AC) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(AD) for they do not know the one who sent me.(AE) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them,(AF) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.(AG) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did,(AH) they would not be guilty of sin.(AI) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:(AJ) ‘They hated me without reason.’[c](AK)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

26 “When the Advocate(AL) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father(AM)—the Spirit of truth(AN) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.(AO) 27 And you also must testify,(AP) for you have been with me from the beginning.(AQ)

Footnotes

  1. John 15:2 The Greek for he prunes also means he cleans.
  2. John 15:20 John 13:16
  3. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4