The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 15
{15:1} "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. {15:2}
Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every
branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
{15:3} You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have
spoken to you. {15:4} Remain 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. {15:5} I am the vine. You are the
branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much
fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. {15:6} If 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. {15:7} If
you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever
you desire, and it will be done to you. {15:8} In this is my Father
glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my
[1>]talmidim[<1]. {15:9} Even as the Father has loved me, I also have
loved you. Remain in my love. {15:10} If you keep my [2>]mitzvot[<2],
you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
[3>]mitzvot[<3], and remain in his love. {15:11} I have spoken these
things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be
made full. {15:12} This is my [4>]mitzvah[<4], that you love one
another, even as I have loved you. {15:13} Greater love has no one
than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. {15:14} You
are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. {15:15} No 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. {15:16} You 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. {15:18} If the world
hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. {15:19}
If 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. {15:20} Remember 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 keep
yours also. {15:21} But all these things will they do to you for my
name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me. {15:22} If I had
not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they
have no excuse for their sin. {15:23} He who hates me, hates my Father
also. {15:24} If I hadn't done among them the works which none other
did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated
both me and my Father. {15:25} But that the word may be fulfilled that
is 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. {15:27} You will also testify, because you have been with me from
the beginning.
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Footnotes:
[1] {15:8} disciples
[2] {15:10} commandments
[3] {15:10} commandments
[4] {15:12} commandment
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