THE GOSPEL OF JOHN SECTION D 13:1-17:25

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1. Now before the feast of the Passover Jesus knew that the his hour was coming when he should move out of this world and return to the Father. Yet he loved those who were his own in the world, right up to the end. During the supper (of the Passover) the devil had by now put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him (Jesus). At the same time Jesus knew that the Father had put everything into his hands and that he came from God and was going back to God. During the supper (Jesus) got up and put aside his outer garments. Then taking a towel he girded himself. Then he put water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and wipe them with the towel which he had tucked into his clothes. (When) he came to Simon Peter, (Peter) says to him "Lord are you washing my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him. "You do not know as yet what I am doing but after all of this you will know." Peter says to him "You will by no means wash my feet - ever." Jesus answered him

"Unless I wash you, you can have no part with me." Simon Peter (therefore) says to him "Lord wash not only my feet but also my hands and head." Jesus says to him "The one who is washed needs only his feet to be washed in order to be wholly clean. And you are clean, but not all." He said this because he knew about the one who was in the process of betraying him. Therefore he said "Not all of you are clean." When therefore he had washed their feet and had put back his outer garments he reclined again. He said to them "Do you know what I have done to you? You call me "the Teacher" and "the Lord" and you say that well, for so I am. If therefore I washed your feet, I who am the Lord and the Teacher, so also you should wash each other's feet. I gave you an example so that what I did to you, so also you may do. Truly, truly I tell you a slave is not greater than his lord nor is a person who is sent greater than the one who sends him. If you know these things and if you do them then you are blessed." 13:1-17

2. "However I do not speak about all of you. I know those people that I chose. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, the one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me. I tell you about this now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe that I am he (the Christ). Truly, truly I tell you the one who receives whoever I may send, also receives me and the one who receives me also receives the one who has sent me." In saying these things Jesus was troubled within his spirit and he admitted this saying "Truly, truly I tell you that one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at each other because they were wondering who he was talking about. Now one of the disciples was leaning against Jesus as they reclined. He was the one Jesus loved especially. Simon Peter therefore nodded to this one and says to him

"Ask who it is that he is talking about." So leaning back, so his head rested on the breast of Jesus he says to him "Lord who is it?" Jesus therefore answered him "It is the one that I give a morsel of food to after I have dipped it." Jesus therefore took a morsel of food, dipped it and gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot. After taking the morsel of food Satan entered into that one. Jesus therefore says to him "What you are going to do do quickly." But none of those who were reclining there knew what he had told him. Some thought that since Judas had the common bag (of money) Jesus was telling him "Buy what we need for the feast." Or that he was saying he should give something to the poor. So, on having taken the morsel of food that one went out immediately. It was then night. 13:18-30

3. When he (Judas) went out Jesus therefore says "Now is the Son of man (Jesus) glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him then God will glorify him in himself and He will do this immediately. Children, yet a little while and I am with you. (Then) you will look for me. But, as I said to the Jews, where I go you cannot come. I am telling you the same thing now. I give you a new commandment that you should love one another as I have loved you It is by this same sort of love that everyone will know

that you are my disciples, that is, if you have love for one another." Simon Peter says to him "Lord where are you going?" Jesus answered "Where I go you cannot follow for now. But you will follow (me there) later on." Peter says to him "Lord why can't I follow you yet? I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answers "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I tell you before a cock crows (tonight) who will have denied me three times." 13:31-38

4. (Jesus continued) "Do not be troubled in your heart. Believe in God and also believe in me. In my Father's house there are many abodes. Otherwise I would have told you, since I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare you a place, then I will come back again and will take you to myself so that where I am you also may be. You (now) know "the way" to

where I am going." Thomas says to him "Lord we do not know where you are going, so how is it that we know the way?" Jesus says to him "I am the way and the truth and life. Nobody comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me then you would also have known my Father. But from now on, you do know him and you have seen him." 14:1-7

5. (Then) Philip says to him "Lord will you show us the Father and that will be enough for us." Jesus says to him "Such a long time I have been with you and you still do not know me Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How is that you are asking "Will you show us the Father?" Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? In the words that I say to you I am not speaking from myself. Rather, the Father who is within me does His works (through me). Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise at least believe in the works. Truly, truly I tell you the one the one who believes in me and in the works that I do, that one will also do (such works) and indeed will do greater works than these because I am going to the Father. So, whatever you ask for in my name, I will do this in order that the Father may be

glorified in the Son. If you ask me to do anything in my name, then I will do it. If you love me you will keep my commandments. (In such case) I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter so that he may be with you for all time. (This is) the Spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive because it does not know it. Nor does it see It. But you know It because he (the Spirit of Truth) resides with you and will be within you. I will not leave you orphans. I am coming (back) to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me. But you will see me because I will continue to live just as you will also live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. The one who has my commandments and keeps them, that is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and will show myself to him." 14:8-21

6. Then Judas, not the Iscariot, says to him (Jesus) "Lord, what has happened that you are about to show yourself (as you really are) to us and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him "If anyone loves me he will keep my word." My Father will love him. We will come to him and we will make an abode with(in) him. The one who does not love me does not keep my word. The word that you hear, is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me. I have spoken these things to you while remaining with you. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I told you. I leave

peace with you. I give you my peace. It is not as the world gives peace that I give this to you. Do not let your heart be troubled. Nor let it be fearful. You heard that I told you, that I am going and yet will come (back) to you. If you loved me you would have been happy that I am going to the Father because the Father is greater than me. So now I have told you (all this) before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I can no longer tell you about many things for the ruler of the world (Satan) is coming. He does not have any thing (power) in me. But so that the world may know that I love the Father and I am doing as the Father has commanded me get up and let's go." 14:22-31

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1. (Despite saying "let's go", Jesus continues) "I am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that is not bearing fruit, he takes. Every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes it so that such a branch may bear more. Now you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in me and I (will remain) in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it remains in (part of) the vine, so also with yourself, unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the branches.

The one who remains in me and I within him, this one bears much fruit. This is because, apart from me, you cannot do anything. Unless someone remains in me, he is cast outside. He is like the branch that was dried up. They gather up (such branches) and throw them into the fire and they are burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then whatever you want to ask for, it shall happen to you. By this shall my Father be glorified, that is, by you bearing much fruit and being disciples to me." 15: 1-8

2. "As the Father has loved me, so also I have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love. This is just as I have kept my Father's

commandments and so remain in his love. These things I have spoken about to you so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be full." 15:9-11

3. "This is my commandment - that you love one another as I have loved you. Nobody has greater love than this - that someone should lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer will

I call you slaves because the slave does not know that the Lord does. As for you I have called you friends because everything that I heard from the Father, I have made known to you." 15:12-15

4. "It is not a matter of you choosing me. Rather I chose you and have appointed you (to a task) that you should go and bear fruit and the fruit (you bear) should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. What I command you is that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it has hated you. If you were of the world it would have loved (you) as its own. But you are not of the world. I chose you out of the world. Therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I told you. A slave is not greater than his lord. If they (enemies of Jesus) persecuted

me, so then they will also persecute you. If they had kept my word, so also would they keep your word. But they will do all these things (c/f persecution) to you because of my name and because they do not know the one who has sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them they would not have sinned. But now they have no cover for their sin. The one who hates me also hates my Father. If I did not do such works amongst them - things that no other man has ever done, then they would not have sinned. But now they have both seen me and have hated myself and my Father. This has happened so that the word in their law should be fulfilled, that is "They hated me freely". 15:16-25

5. "When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, it will be the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the

Father. That one will give witness concerning me. And you also will give witness to me because you have been with me from the beginning." 15:26-27

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1. (Jesus continued) "I have spoken these things to you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue. There will even come a time when everyone killing you will think they are doing a service to God. They will do these things (to you) because they do not know either the Father nor myself. But I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember them and remember

that I warned you about them. I did not tell you these things at the beginning because I was with you (then). But now I am going to the one who has sent me. None of you asks me 'Where are you going?" But because I have told these things to you, grief has filled your heart. But I tell the truth to you, that it is better for you that I go away. This is because if I do not go away the Comforter will not come to you. But if I do go I will send him to you." 16:1-7

2. "When that one (the Comforter) comes he will reprove the world about (its) sin and about (the need for ) righteousness and judgment. As regards sin, it will be because they do not believe in me. Concerning righteousness, it will be because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me. Concerning judgment, this will be because the ruler of this world has (now) been judged. There are still many things that I have to tell you. But you cannot bear them now. However when that one comes, the Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into all the truth. Yet he will not speak from himself. Rather what he hears he will speak. He will announce coming things to you. That one will glorify me because he will accept and receive what is mine and will make announcements to you. Everything that the Father has is mine. Therefore I said that he (the Comforter) receives what is mine and will make announcements to you. A little while and you will no longer see me. And, again in a little while you will see me. "Some of the disciples said to one another "What is this he is telling us, that a

little while and you will not see me and again in a little while you will see me?" and (also when he says) "This is because I am going to the Father"? They therefore said "What does he mean in saying the "little while"? We do not know what he is saying." Jesus knew that they wanted to question him and he said to them ""Concerning this, you are asking one another because I said "A little while and you will not see me and again in a little while you will see me? "Truly, truly I tell you that you will weep and will lament and the world will rejoice. You will be grieved. But your grief will turn into joy. The woman when she gives birth has grief because her time has come. But when she brings forth the child she no longer remembers the distress because of the joy that a man has been born into the world. And you therefore, now you do indeed have grief. But I will see you again and your heart will rejoice. And, no one will be able to take your joy from you. In that day you will not question me about anything." 16:8-23

3. (Jesus continued) "Truly, truly I tell you that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give it to you. Up until now you have not asked for anything in my name. But ask, and you will receive so that your joy may be full. I have spoken these things to you in allegories.

But an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in allegories. I will speak to you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name and I tell you that I will request the Father (in turn) concerning you. The Father himself loves you because you have loved me." 16:23-27

4. "and (you) have believed that I have come forth from God. I came forth out of the Father and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go (back) to the Father." His disciples say to him "See now you are speaking plainly and you are no longer telling allegories. Now we know that you know all things and nobody has any need to question you. By this (now) we believe that you have come forth from God." Jesus answered them

"Do you believe now? Behold an hour is coming, and indeed has come when you will each be scattered back into his own household and you will leave me on my own. But I am not alone because the Father is with me. I have spoken these things to you so that you may have peace in me. In the world you have distress. But take heart and cheer up. I have overcome the world." 16:27-33

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