Day 313 of 364

^15:1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. ^15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ^15:3You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ^15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. ^15:5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ^15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ^15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. ^15:8“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. ^15:9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. ^15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. ^15:11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. ^15:12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. ^15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ^15:14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. ^15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ^15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ^15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another. ^15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ^15:20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ^15:21But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. ^15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^15:23He who hates me, hates my Father also. ^15:24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. ^15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ ^15:26“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. ^15:27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. ^16:1“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. ^16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. ^16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me. ^16:4But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. ^16:5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ^16:6But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. ^16:7Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ^16:8When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; ^16:9about sin, because they don’t believe in me; ^16:10about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; ^16:11about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. ^16:12“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. ^16:13However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. ^16:14He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you. ^16:15All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you. ^16:16“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.” ^16:17Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?” ^16:18They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.” ^16:19Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? ^16:20Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. ^16:21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. ^16:22Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. ^16:23“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. ^16:24Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. ^16:25“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. ^16:26In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, ^16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. ^16:28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” ^16:29His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. ^16:30Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.” ^16:31Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ^16:32Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ^16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”