But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

No man takes it from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.

Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

Now he said this, not because it was a concern to him about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the purse and removed things that were put in.

For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.

For some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.

Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he removes it. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit.

Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it dwells in the grapevine, so neither ye, if ye do not dwell in me.

By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and appointed you, so that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that anything whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

In that day ye will ask in my name, and I do not say to you, that I will pray the Father about you,

I pray about them. I do not pray about the world, but about whom thou have given me, because they are for thee.

I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil.

And I pray not about these only, but also about those who believe in me through their word,