Section XLVI.

[1] 3091    John xiv. 21.Whosoever 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.  3092    John xiv. 22.Judas (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?  3093    John xiv. 23.Jesus 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    Lit. the (cf. Syriac versions). abode with him.  [4] 3095    John xiv. 24.But 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] 3096    John xiv. 25.This have I spoken unto you, while I was yet with you.  3097    John xiv. 26.But 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.  3098    John xiv. 27.Peace I leave you; my peace I give unto you:  and not as this world giveth, give I unto you.  [8] 3099    John xiv. 28.Let your heart not be troubled,3100    This word is quite unlike that used in § 45, 29. nor fearful.  Ye heard that I said unto you, that I go away, and come unto you.  If3101    The Syriac form of the introductory particle is wrongly used, for in Arabic it has interrogative force. ye loved me, ye would rejoice, that I go away to my [9] Father:  for my Father is greater than I.  3102    John xiv. 29.And now I say unto you before it come [10] to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe me.  3103    John xiv. 30.Now I will not speak with you much:  the Archon of the world will come, and he will have nothing in [11] me:  3104    John xiv. 31a.but that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father charged me, so I do.

[12] 3105    Luke xxii. 35.And he said unto them, When I sent you without purses, or wallets, and shoes,3106    The first letter of the Arabic word has lost its diacritical point. [13] lacked ye perchance anything?  They said unto him, Nothing.  3107    Luke xxii. 36.He 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.  3108    Luke xxii. 37.I say unto you, that this scripture also must be fulfilled in me, that I should be reckoned3109    A possible rendering of the Syriac he was reckoned. with the transgressors:  for all that is said of me is fulfilled in [15] me.  3110    Luke xxii. 38.His disciples said unto him, Our Lord, lo, here are two swords.  He said [16] unto them, They are sufficient.  3111    John xiv. 31b; Luke xxii. 39.Arise, 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] 3112    John xv. 1.And he said unto them, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  [18] 3113    John xv. 2.Every 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.  3114    John xv. 3.Ye are already clean because of the word [20] that I have spoken unto you.  3115    John xv. 4.Abide 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.  3116    John xv. 5.I 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.  3117    John xv. 6.And if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, like a withered [23] branch; and it is gathered, and cast3118    The verbs may be active or passive, but are singular (cf. § 38, 43, note). into the fire, that it may be burned.  3119    John xv. 7.If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, everything that ye desire to ask shall be [24] done unto you.  3120    John xv. 8.And herein is the Father glorified, that ye may give much fruit; [25] and ye shall be my disciples.  3121    John xv. 9.And as my Father loved me, I loved you also:  [26] abide in my love.  3122    John xv. 10.If ye keep my commands, ye shall abide in my love; as I have [27] kept my Father’s commands, and abode in his love.  3123    John xv. 11.I have spoken that unto you, [28] that my joy3124    Two words from the same root. may be in you, and your joy3125    Two words from the same root. be fulfilled.  3126    John xv. 12.This is my commandment, [29] that ye love one another, as I loved you.  3127    John xv. 13.And no love is greater than this, namely, [30] that a man should give his life for his friends.  3128    John xv. 14.Ye are my friends, if ye do all that [31] I command you.  3129    John xv. 15.I 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.  3130    John xv. 16.Ye did not choose3131    Different words. me, but I chose I you, and appointed you, that ye also should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should3132    Or, shall and will, respectively. [33] abide; and that all that ye shall ask my Father in my name, he may3133    Or, shall and will, respectively. give you.  3134    John xv. 17.This [34] I command3135    Or, have commanded. you, that ye love one another.  3136    John xv. 18.And if the world hate you, know that [35] before you it hated me.  3137    John xv. 19.If 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.  3138    John xv. 20.Remember the word that I said unto you, that no servant is greater than his lord.  And if they persecuted3139    cf. § 8, 34, note. me, you also will they [37] persecute;3140    cf. § 8, 34, note. and if they kept my word, your word also will they keep.  3141    John xv. 21.But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, for they have not known3142    The Arabic text (Vat.) is grammatically inaccurate, and the Borg. ms. has know not. him [38] that sent me.  3143    John xv. 22.And if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:  [39] but now they have no excuse for their sins.  3144