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“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
“If you love me, keep my commands.
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Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
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Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
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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.
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“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
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but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.
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“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
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If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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This is my command: Love each other.
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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 out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
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No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
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I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
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“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
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I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
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When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,”
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So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
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Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water.
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Jesus Reinstates Peter
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
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Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
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The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.
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Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”)
