36 Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”(A)

Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now,(B) but you will follow later.”(C)

37 Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

38 Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!(D)

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36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

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16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you(A) so that you might go and bear fruit(B)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.(C) 17 This is my command: Love each other.(D)

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you,(E) 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(F) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(G) 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a](H) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.(I) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(J) for they do not know the one who sent me.(K) 22 If I had not come and spoken to them,(L) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.(M) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did,(N) they would not be guilty of sin.(O) 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:(P) ‘They hated me without reason.’[b](Q)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

26 “When the Advocate(R) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father(S)—the Spirit of truth(T) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.(U) 27 And you also must testify,(V) for you have been with me from the beginning.(W)

16 “All this(X) I have told you so that you will not fall away.(Y) They will put you out of the synagogue;(Z) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.(AA) They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.(AB) I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember(AC) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,(AD)

Footnotes

  1. John 15:20 John 13:16
  2. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever 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 hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, 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 cloak 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 man 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 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 unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

16 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

31 “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. 32 “A time is coming(A) and in fact has come when you will be scattered,(B) each to your own home. You will leave me all alone.(C) Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.(D)

33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.(E) In this world you will have trouble.(F) But take heart! I have overcome(G) the world.”

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31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now 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 I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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