Section XLVI.

[1] 3091Whosoever hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:  and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will [2] shew myself unto him.  3092Judas (not Iscariot) said unto him, My Lord, what is the [3] purpose of thy intention to shew thyself to us, and not to the world?  3093Jesus answered and said unto him, Whosoever loveth me will keep my word:  and my Father will love him, and to him will we come, and make our3094 abode with him.  [4] 3095But he that loveth me not keepeth not my word:  and this word that ye hear is not my word, but the Father’s which sent me.

[5, 6] 3096This have I spoken unto you, while I was yet with you.  3097But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything, and [7] [Arabic, p. 174] he will bring to your remembrance all that I say unto you.  3098Peace I leave you; my peace I give unto you:  and not as this world giveth, give I unto you.  [8] 3099Let your heart not be troubled,3100 nor fearful.  Ye heard that I said unto you, that I go away, and come unto you.  If3101 ye loved me, ye would rejoice, that I go away to my [9] Father:  for my Father is greater than I.  3102And now I say unto you before it come [10] to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe me.  3103Now I will not speak with you much:  the Archon of the world will come, and he will have nothing in [11] me:  3104but that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father charged me, so I do.

[12] 3105And he said unto them, When I sent you without purses, or wallets, and shoes,3106 [13] lacked ye perchance anything?  They said unto him, Nothing.  3107He said unto them, Henceforth, whosoever hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise the wallet also:  and whosoever hath not a sword, shall sell his garment, and buy for himself a [14] sword.  3108I say unto you, that this scripture also must be fulfilled in me, that I should be reckoned3109 with the transgressors:  for all that is said of me is fulfilled in [15] me.  3110His disciples said unto him, Our Lord, lo, here are two swords.  He said [16] unto them, They are sufficient.  3111Arise, let us go hence.  And they arose, and praised, and went forth, and went, according to their custom, to the mount of Olives, he and his disciples.

[17] 3112And he said unto them, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  [18] 3113Every branch that produceth not fruit in me, he taketh it:  and that which giveth fruit, [19] he cleanseth it, that it may give much fruit.  3114Ye are already clean because of the word [20] that I have spoken unto you.  3115Abide in me, and I in you.  And as the branch of the [Arabic, p. 175] vine cannot produce fruit of itself, if it be not abiding in the vine; so too ye [21] also, if ye abide not in me.  3116I am the vine, and ye are the branches:  He then that abideth in me, and I in him, he giveth much fruit:  for without me ye cannot [22] do anything.  3117And if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, like a withered [23] branch; and it is gathered, and cast3118 into the fire, that it may be burned.  3119If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, everything that ye desire to ask shall be [24] done unto you.  3120And herein is the Father glorified, that ye may give much fruit; [25] and ye shall be my disciples.  3121And as my Father loved me, I loved you also:  [26] abide in my love.  3122If ye keep my commands, ye shall abide in my love; as I have [27] kept my Father’s commands, and abode in his love.  3123I have spoken that unto you, [28] that my joy3124 may be in you, and your joy3125 be fulfilled.  3126This is my commandment, [29] that ye love one another, as I loved you.  3127And no love is greater than this, namely, [30] that a man should give his life for his friends.  3128Ye are my friends, if ye do all that [31] I command you.  3129I call you not now servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:  my friends have I now called you; for everything that I heard from [32] my Father I have made known unto you.  3130Ye did not choose3131 me, but I chose I you, and appointed you, that ye also should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should3132 [33] abide; and that all that ye shall ask my Father in my name, he may3133 give you.  3134This [34] I command3135 you, that ye love one another.  3136And if the world hate you, know that [35] before you it hated me.  3137If then ye were of the world, the world would love its own:  but ye are not of the world:  I chose you out of the world:  therefore the world [36] [Arabic, p. 176] hateth you.  3138Remember the word that I said unto you, that no servant is greater than his lord.  And if they persecuted3139 me, you also will they [37] persecute;3140 and if they kept my word, your word also will they keep.  3141But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, for they have not known3142 him [38] that sent me.  3143And if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:  [39] but now they have no excuse for their sins.  3144Whosoever hateth me, also hateth my [40] Father.  3145And if I had not done the deeds before them that no other man did, they would not have had sin:  but now they have seen and hated me and my Father [41] also:  that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, 3146They hated me for [42] nothing.