John 15:15-17:26 I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father.

Haweis⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father. ¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask 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 you. ¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your's 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 Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He that hateth me hateth my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no other ever did, they would not have had sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which 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, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: ²⁷ and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning. ¹⁶ ¹ THESE things have I spoken, that ye might not be stumbled. ² They will put you out of their synagogues: yea, the hour is coming, that every one who killeth you will think he offers God a sacred service. ³ And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. ⁴ But these things have I spoken to you, that when the hour is come, ye may remember the same for I had told you. But these things I told you not at the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵ But now I am going away to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going? ⁶ But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. ⁷ Yet I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I went not away, the Comforter would not come to you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. ⁸ And when he cometh, he will convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin first, because they believe not in me; ¹⁰ then of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, so ye see me no more; ¹¹ and of judgment, because the ruler of this world hath sentence pronounced on him. ¹² I have many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them just now. ¹³ But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he will conduct you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever things he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will declare to you the things that shall come hereafter. ¹⁴ He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. ¹⁵ All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore I said, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. ¹⁶ A little while longer, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I am going to the Father. ¹⁷ Then said some of the disciples unto each other, What is this which he saith to us, A little while longer, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and this, because I am going to the Father? ¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this which he saith, This little while? we know not what he means. ¹⁹ Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Are ye questioning among yourselves concerning this declaration, which I spake, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me? ²⁰ Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be very sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. ²¹ A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when the little son is born, she no more remembers the anguish, for joy that a man is brought into the world. ²² And ye therefore have indeed at present sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall be made glad, and your joy no man taketh from you. ²³ And in that hour ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That whatsoever things ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you. ²⁴ Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete. ²⁵ These things have I spoken to you in parables: but the hour is coming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but will plainly inform you respecting the Father. ²⁶ In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I do not say to you, I will entreat the Father for you: ²⁷ for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. ²⁸ I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I am leaving the world, and going to the Father. ²⁹ His disciples said unto him, Lo! now thou speakest plainly, and speakest in no-wise proverbial. ³⁰ Now we know that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any person should ask thee: by this we believe that thou hast come forth from God. ³¹ Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? ³² Behold, the hour is coming, yea, it is already come, that ye shall be dispersed, each after his own concerns, and shall leave me alone: though I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ³³ These things have I spoken to you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world. ¹⁷ ¹ THESE things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee: ² even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life: ³ and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah. ⁴ I have glorified thee upon earth: I have completed the work which thou gavest me to perform. ⁵ And now, Father, do thou glorify me with thyself in the glory which I held with thee before the world was. ⁶ I have made known thy name to the persons whom thou gavest me out of the world: for thee they had a being, and to me thou hast given them; and thy word have they kept. ⁷ Now have they known, that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee. ⁸ For the declarations which thou gavest to me I have delivered to them; and they have received them, and have known assuredly that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou hast sent me. ⁹ I entreat for them: I make no request for the world; but for those thou hast given me; for they are thine. ¹⁰ And all mine are thine, and thine mine; and I have been glorified in them. ¹¹ And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name's sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. ¹² When I was with them in the world, I preserved them by thy name: those whom thou hast given me have I guarded, and not one of them is perished, except the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now I am coming to thee; and I am speaking these things in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. ¹⁴ I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I entreat not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest preserve them from the wicked one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for them I devote myself, that they also might be sanctified by the truth. ²⁰ And not for them do I make request only, but also for those who shall believe in me through their word; ²¹ that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that these also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And I have given them the glory, which thou hast given me; that they may be one, even as we are one: ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they may also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou gavest me: because thou hast loved me before the foundation of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father! though the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. ²⁶ And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.