John 14:19-15:17

New American Standard Bible

¹⁹^[a]^(A)After a little while, ^(B)the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; ^(C)because I live, you also will live. ²⁰^(D)On that day you will know that ^(E)I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you. ²¹^(F)The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^(G)the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^(H)reveal Myself to him.” ²²^(I)Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what has happened ^(J)that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered and said to him, “^(K)If anyone loves Me, he will ^(L)follow My word; and ^(M)My Father will love him, and We ^(N)will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ²⁴The one who does not love Me ^(O)does not follow My words; and ^(P)the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you. ²⁶But the ^(Q)Helper, the Holy Spirit ^(R)whom the Father will send in My name, ^(S)He will teach you all things, and ^(T)remind you of all that I said to you. ²⁷^(U)Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. ^(V)^[b]Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor ^[c]fearful. ²⁸^(W)You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away, and ^(X)I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced ^[d]because ^(Y)I am going to the Father, for ^(Z)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹And now ^(AA)I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰I will not speak much more with you, for ^(AB)the ruler of the world is coming, and he has ^[e]nothing in regard to Me, ³¹but so that the world may know that I love the Father, ^[f]I do exactly as ^(AC)the Father commanded Me. Get up, ^(AD)let’s go from here.

Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches

15 “^(AE)I am the true vine, and My Father is the ^(AF)vinedresser. ²Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ^[g]prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. ³^(AG)You are already ^[h]clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴^(AH)Remain in Me, ^[i]and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit ^[j]of itself ^[k]but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. ⁵I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him ^[l]^(AI)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not remain in Me, he is ^(AJ)thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ^(AK)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸My ^(AL)Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^[m]^(AM)prove to be My disciples. ⁹Just as ^(AN)the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love. ¹⁰^(AO)If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as ^(AP)I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. ¹¹^(AQ)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(AR)joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹²“This is ^(AS)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³^(AT)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will ^(AU)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are My ^(AV)friends if ^(AW)you do what I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because ^(AX)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶^(AY)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(AZ)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(BA)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷This ^(BB)I command you, that you love one another.