"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

Ye, are, friends of mine, if ye be doing that which, I, am commanding you.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

But all these things they will do to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me.

They would not be guilty of sinning if I had not come and spoken to them. But now [that I have], they have no excuse for their sin.

He that hates me, hates my Father also.

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'

"When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father--that one will testify about me.

'These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

But now I go to him that sent me, and no one of you asks me, Where do you go?

Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

And when that One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.

about uprightness, because I go away to the Father so that you can no longer see me;

As to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

He will glorify me, because He will take the things that belong to me and tell them to you.

All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, "He will take what is mine and declare it to you.'

Therefore said some of his disciples one to another, 'What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

'The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice ??with a joy that no one can take from you.

On that day, you won't ask me for anything. Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you.

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.

At that time, you will make your requests in my name, so that I will have no need to ask the Father on your behalf,

because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

"Do you believe that already?" Jesus answered.

and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

For you have given him authority over all humanity so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do it.

'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

I have made known thy name to the men that thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them, to me, and they have kept thy word.

Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you,

because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them that you have given me; for they are yours.

All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified through them.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;

so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

"I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.

I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

'Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

"Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them."

Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there with His disciples.

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

Jesus saith unto them, I am He. And Judas that betrayed Him, was standing with them.

Then, when he said to them, That I am, they went away backward, and fell to the ground.

So once more He asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

Jesus replied, "I told you that I am the one, so if you are looking for me, let these men go."

that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- 'Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'

Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name to that servant was Malchus.

Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,

but Peter was standing at the door without. So the other disciple, who was known unto the high priest, went out and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.

The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto Peter, Art thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.

now the servants and officers that were there, had made a coal-fire, for it was cold, to warm themselves: and Peter stood warming himself among them.

Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard me , what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which I said.

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

"If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Therefore they said to him, Are thou not also of his disciples? That man therefore denied, and said, I am not.

Peter again denied it; and at that very moment a cock crew.

They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.

After that, Pilate went into the Government House again, and calling Jesus up, asked him: "Are you the King of the Jews?"

Jesus answered, "Sayest thou that of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?"

Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

Pilate said unto him, "What thing is truth?" And when he had said that, he went out again unto the Jews, and said unto them, "I find in him no cause at all.

But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

Then cried they all again saying, "Not him, but Barabbas." That Barabbas was a robber.

After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged;

Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

The Jewish leaders answered Pilate, "We have a law, and according to that Law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God."

When Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid,

So Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?"