15:1 “I am the true vine ¹  and my Father is the gardener. ²  15:2 He takes away ³  every branch that does not bear ⁴  fruit in me. He ⁵  prunes ⁶  every branch that bears ⁷  fruit so that it will bear more fruit. 15:3 You are clean already ⁸  because of the word that I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain ⁹  in me, and I will remain in you. ¹⁰  Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, ¹¹  unless it remains ¹²  in ¹³  the vine, so neither can you unless you remain ¹⁴  in me.

15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains ¹⁵  in me – and I in him – bears ¹⁶  much fruit, ¹⁷  because apart from me you can accomplish ¹⁸  nothing. 15:6 If anyone does not remain ¹⁹  in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, ²⁰  and are burned up. ²¹  15:7 If you remain ²²  in me and my words remain ²³  in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. ²⁴  15:8 My Father is honored ²⁵  by this, that ²⁶  you bear ²⁷  much fruit and show that you are ²⁸  my disciples.

15:9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain ²⁹  in my love. 15:10 If you obey ³⁰  my commandments, you will remain ³¹  in my love, just as I have obeyed ³²  my Father’s commandments and remain ³³  in his love. 15:11 I have told you these things ³⁴  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. 15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. ³⁵  15:13 No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life ³⁶  for his friends. 15:14 You are my friends ³⁷  if you do what I command you. 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, ³⁸  because the slave does not understand ³⁹  what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything ⁴⁰  I heard ⁴¹  from my Father. 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you ⁴²  and appointed you to go and bear ⁴³  fruit, fruit that remains, ⁴⁴  so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 15:17 This ⁴⁵  I command you – to love one another.

15:18 “If the world hates you, be aware ⁴⁶  that it hated me first. ⁴⁷  15:19 If you belonged to the world, ⁴⁸  the world would love you as its own. ⁴⁹  However, because you do not belong to the world, ⁵⁰  but I chose you out of the world, for this reason ⁵¹  the world hates you. ⁵²  15:20 Remember what ⁵³  I told you, ‘A slave ⁵⁴  is not greater than his master.’ ⁵⁵  If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed ⁵⁶  my word, they will obey ⁵⁷  yours too. 15:21 But they will do all these things to you on account of ⁵⁸  my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. ⁵⁹  15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. ⁶⁰  But they no longer have any excuse for their sin. 15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 15:24 If I had not performed ⁶¹  among them the miraculous deeds ⁶²  that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. ⁶³  But now they have seen the deeds ⁶⁴  and have hated both me and my Father. ⁶⁵  15:25 Now this happened ⁶⁶  to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ ⁶⁷  15:26 When the Advocate ⁶⁸  comes, whom I will send you from the Father – the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father – he ⁶⁹  will testify about me, 15:27 and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

16:1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. ⁷⁰  16:2 They will put you out of ⁷¹  the synagogue, ⁷²  yet a time ⁷³  is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. ⁷⁴  16:3 They ⁷⁵  will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. ⁷⁶  16:4 But I have told you these things ⁷⁷  so that when their time ⁷⁸  comes, you will remember that I told you about them. ⁷⁹ 

“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. ⁸⁰  16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, ⁸¹  and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁸²  16:6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness ⁸³  because I have said these things to you. 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate ⁸⁴  will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 16:8 And when he ⁸⁵  comes, he will prove the world wrong ⁸⁶  concerning sin and ⁸⁷  righteousness and ⁸⁸  judgment – 16:9 concerning sin, because ⁸⁹  they do not believe in me; ⁹⁰  16:10 concerning righteousness, ⁹¹  because ⁹²  I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 16:11 and concerning judgment, ⁹³  because ⁹⁴  the ruler of this world ⁹⁵  has been condemned. ⁹⁶ 

16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, ⁹⁷  but you cannot bear ⁹⁸  them now. 16:13 But when he, ⁹⁹  the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide ¹⁰⁰  you into all truth. ¹⁰¹  For he will not speak on his own authority, ¹⁰²  but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you ¹⁰³  what is to come. ¹⁰⁴  16:14 He ¹⁰⁵  will glorify me, ¹⁰⁶  because he will receive ¹⁰⁷  from me what is mine ¹⁰⁸  and will tell it to you. ¹⁰⁹  16:15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit ¹¹⁰  will receive from me what is mine ¹¹¹  and will tell it to you. ¹¹²  16:16 In a little while you ¹¹³  will see me no longer; again after a little while, you ¹¹⁴  will see me.” ¹¹⁵ 

16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ¹¹⁶  ‘In a little while you ¹¹⁷  will not see me; again after a little while, you ¹¹⁸  will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹¹⁹  16:18 So they kept on repeating, ¹²⁰  “What is the meaning of what he says, ¹²¹  ‘In a little while’? ¹²²  We do not understand ¹²³  what he is talking about.” ¹²⁴ 

16:19 Jesus could see ¹²⁵  that they wanted to ask him about these things, ¹²⁶  so ¹²⁷  he said to them, “Are you asking ¹²⁸  each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you ¹²⁹  will not see me; again after a little while, you ¹³⁰  will see me’? 16:20 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹³¹  you will weep ¹³²  and wail, ¹³³  but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, ¹³⁴  but your sadness will turn into ¹³⁵  joy. 16:21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress ¹³⁶  because her time ¹³⁷  has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being ¹³⁸  has been born into the world. ¹³⁹  16:22 So also you have sorrow ¹⁴⁰  now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. ¹⁴¹  16:23 At that time ¹⁴²  you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁴³  whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. ¹⁴⁴  16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, ¹⁴⁵  so that your joy may be complete.

16:25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; ¹⁴⁶  a time ¹⁴⁷  is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you ¹⁴⁸  plainly ¹⁴⁹  about the Father. 16:26 At that time ¹⁵⁰  you will ask in my name, and I do not say ¹⁵¹  that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 16:27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. ¹⁵²  16:28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, ¹⁵³  I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” ¹⁵⁴ 

16:29 His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly ¹⁵⁵  and not in obscure figures of speech! ¹⁵⁶  16:30 Now we know that you know everything ¹⁵⁷  and do not need anyone ¹⁵⁸  to ask you anything. ¹⁵⁹  Because of this ¹⁶⁰  we believe that you have come from God.”

16:31 Jesus replied, ¹⁶¹  “Do you now believe? 16:32 Look, a time ¹⁶²  is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, ¹⁶³  and I will be left alone. ¹⁶⁴  Yet ¹⁶⁵  I am not alone, because my Father ¹⁶⁶  is with me. 16:33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, ¹⁶⁷  but take courage ¹⁶⁸  – I have conquered the world.” ¹⁶⁹