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 for 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 remain 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
someone 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 no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But
now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. {15:25} But
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. {15:27} 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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