John 14:16-17:26

Wesley^{(i) 16} to remain with you for ever, Even the Spirit of truth, ¹⁷ whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he remaineth with you, and shall be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I come to you. ¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more: but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. ²⁰ At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me, shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ²² Judas (not Iscariot) saith to him, Lord, how is it, that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him. ²⁴ He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me. ²⁵ These things have I spoken to you, while I remained with you. But the Comforter, ²⁶ the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸ Ye heard me say to you, I go, and come again to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoyced, because I said, I go to the Father; for my Father is greater than me. ²⁹ And now I have told you, before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe. ³⁰ Hereafter I shall not talk much with with you; for the prince of this world is coming; but he hath nothing in me: ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go hence. ^{15 1} I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; ² and every one that beareth fruit, he purifieth it, that it may bear more fruit. ³ Now ye are pure thro' the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can ye, unless ye abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, he beareth much fruit; but, separate from me, ye can do nothing. ⁶ If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and is withered: and they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ Hereby is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. ¹⁰ Abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be full. ¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ No one hath greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. I no longer call you servants, ¹⁵ for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and your fruit may remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. ¹⁷ This I command you, that ye love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know it hated me, before it hated 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 chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things will they do to you, for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they had not had sin: ²⁴ but now have they seen them, and yet hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ So that the word which is written in their law is fulfilled, They hated me without a cause. ²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. ²⁷ Ye also testify, because ye have been with me from the beginning. ^{16 1} I have told you these things, that ye may not be offended. They will put you out of the synagogues; ² yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think he doth God service. ³ These things will they do, because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴ But I have told you these things, that when the time shall come, ye may remember I told you them. I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵ But now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? ⁶ But because I have told you this, sorrow hath filled your heart. ⁷ But I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go: for if I go not, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you. ⁸ And he coming will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ Of sin, because they believe not on me; ¹⁰ Of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye see me no more; ¹¹ Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. ¹² I have yet many things to say to you; but ye cannot bear them now. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, he will speak; and he will shew you things to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me; for he will take of mine, and shew it you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father hath, are mine: therefore I said, He will take of mine, and shew it you. ¹⁶ A little while and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. ¹⁷ Then some of his disciples said to each other, What is this that he said to us? A little while and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while and ye shall see me? and, Because I go to the Father? ¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this little while that he speaketh of? We understand not what he saith. ¹⁹ Jesus knew they were desirous to ask him, and said to them, Ye inquire among you of this, that I said, 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, Ye will weep and lament; but the world will rejoice: ye will be sorrowful; but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. ²¹ A woman when she is in travel, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembreth the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. ²² And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh from you. ²³ And in that day ye shall not question me about any thing. Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever 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 full. ²⁵ I have spoken these things to you in parables: but the time is coming, when I will no longer speak to you in parables, but will shew you plainly of the Father. ²⁶ At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you. ²⁷ For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed, that I came forth from God. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again I leave the world, and go to the Father. ²⁹ His disciples say to him, Lo now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no parable. ³⁰ Now we are sure thou knowest all things, and needest not that any should question thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. ³¹ Jesus answered, Ye do now believe. But lo the hour is coming, ³² yea, is already come, that ye shall be scattered every one to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone; for the Father is with me. ³³ I have spoken these things to you, that ye may have peace in me. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but take courage: I have overcome the world. ^{17 1} These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes and said, Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, ² that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. ³ And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ⁴ I have glorified thee on earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee, before the world was. ⁶ I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou hast given them me, and they have kept thy word. ⁷ Now they know, that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. ⁸ For I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known surely, that I came forth from thee, and they have believed that thou hast sent me. ⁹ I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me; for they are thine. ¹⁰ And all things that are mine are thine, and that are thine are mine; and I am glorified by them. ¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep thro' thy name them whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. ¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them thro' thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I have guarded, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ And now I am coming to thee, and I speak these things in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them. 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 do not pray, that thou wouldest take them out of the world, but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Sanctify them thro' the truth: thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified thro' the truth. ²⁰ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who will believe on me thro' their word: ²¹ That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one: ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected in one; and that the world may know, that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ Father, I will that these also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. ²⁵ Righteous Father, tho' the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. ²⁶ And I have declared to them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.