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Jesus promises the Spirit

15-20 “If you really love me, you will keep the commandments I have given you and I shall ask the Father to give you someone else to stand by you, to be with you always. I mean the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, for it can neither see nor recognise that Spirit. But you recognise him, for he is with you now and will be in your hearts. I am not going to leave you alone in the world—I am coming to you. In a very little while, the world will see me no more but you will see me, because I am really alive and you will be alive too. When that day come, you will realise that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and I am in you.

21 “Every man who knows my commandments and obeys them is the man who really loves me, and every man who really loves me will himself be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and make myself known to him.”

22 Then Judas (not Iscariot), said, “Lord, how is it that you are going to make yourself known to us but not to the world?”

23-24 And to this Jesus replied, “When a man loves me, he follows my teaching. Then my Father will love him, and we will come to that man and make our home within him. The man who does not really love me will not follow my teaching. Indeed, what you are hearing from me now is not really my saying, but comes from the Father who sent me.

25-26 “I have said all this while I am still with you. But the one who is coming to stand by you, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher and will bring to your minds all that I have said to you.

27-31 “I leave behind with you—peace; I give you my own peace and my gift is nothing like the peace of this world. You must not be distressed and you must not be daunted. You have heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you really loved me, you would be glad because I am going to my Father, for my Father is greater than I. And I have told you of it now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, your faith in me will not be shaken. I shall not be able to talk much longer to you for the spirit that rules this world is coming very close. He has no hold over me, but I go on my way to show the world that I love the Father and do what he sent me to do ... Get up now! Let us leave this place.

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18 I will not leave you as orphans;(A) I will come to you.(B) 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.(C) Because I live, you also will live.(D) 20 On that day(E) you will realize that I am in my Father,(F) and you are in me, and I am in you.(G) 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.(H) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,(I) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

22 Then Judas(J) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”(K)

23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.(L) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(M) 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.(N)

25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate,(O) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,(P) will teach you all things(Q) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.(R) 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.(S) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled(T) and do not be afraid.

28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’(U) If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,(V) for the Father is greater than I.(W) 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.(X) 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world(Y) 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.(Z)

“Come now; let us leave.

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