1550641 Jesus continues on the Mount of Olives – Matthew 26:30, John 15:1-16:33, Thursday April 14 A.D. 29 Jerusalem
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I in you. And as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. I am the vine and you are the branches. And he who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If a man does not 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. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”
“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not 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. You did not 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.”
“These things I command you, that you may love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 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. 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. But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
“But when the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. And you will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.”
“These things have I spoken to you, so that you would not stumble. And they will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. And I did not say to you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless I say to you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he has come, he will convict the world in respect to sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; about sin, because they do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will not see me anymore; about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.”
“I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. And he will declare to you things that are coming. And he will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you. A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father?’” And they said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while?’ We do not know what he is saying.”
Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ Most certainly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she does not remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. And therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.”
In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I say to you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will say to you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
And his disciples said to him, “Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech. And now we know that you know all things, and do not need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God.” And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you now believe? Behold, the hour is coming, yes, and now has come, that you will be scattered, every man to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.”
