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"Do not let your heart be troubled,” Jesus continued. "Believe in God, that is, believe in me. In my Father's house are many abiding-places. If it were not so I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I am going and shall prepare a place for you, I am coming again and shall receive you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. And where I am going you

know the way."

"Lord," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going, and how can we know the way? "I am the way, that is, the truth, that is, the life," said the Lord. "No one comes to the Father but

through me. If you had gotten to know me, you would have known my Father also. And from now on you have gotten to know him and have seen him."

us.

"Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for

"Have I been so long with you and you have not gotten to know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. then, Show us the Father?

So how do you say Do you not believe I

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am in the Father and the Father in me? The words I am speaking to you I am not speaking on my own authority, but the Father dwelling in me is doing the works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very deed's sake. Most truly I tell you, He who keeps believing in me shall do what I am doing. And greater deeds than these shall he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you shall ask in my name I will do it, so that the Father may be honored in the Son. thing in my name I will do it. will keep my commandments.

If you shall ask any

If you love me you And I will pray the

Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the

world cannot receive.

nor gets to know him.

For he continues with

For it neither looks at him

But you get to know him. you and is in you. I will

not leave you orphans. I am coming to you.

Yet

a little while and the world looks at me no longer. But you look at me. For I am living and you will live. In that day you will learn that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. He who has my commandments and is keeping them is the one who is loving me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. And I will love him and will make myself known to him."

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Lord," said Judah. Not Iscariot.

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"Lord,

how is it you will make yourself known to us and not to the world?"

sent me.

"If any one loves me he will do what I tell him, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. He who does not love me, does not do what I tell him. And what I tell you is not mine, but the Father's who I have said these things to you while still present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and bring to your remembrance everything I said to you. Peace I am leaving you. My peace I am giving you. Not as the world gives am I giving to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. You heard how I said, I am going away and am coming to you. If you loved me you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father. For the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it has happened you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you. For the ruler of the world is coming. He has nothing in me. But this is done so that the world may come to a knowledge of the fact that I love the Father and as the Father gave me commandment so I am doing. Rise, let us go from here.

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I am the real vine and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me which does not keep bearing fruit he takes away. And every branch which bears fruit he keeps trimming so that it may keep bearing more fruit. Already you are trimmed because of what I have told you. Continue in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself except it continues in the vine, no more can you except you continue in me. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who continues in me and I in him keeps bearing a great deal of fruit. For without me you can do nothing. If any one does not continue in me he is thrown away as a branch and is withered. So it is gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you continue in me and my words continue in you, you shall ask what you wish and it shall be done for you. My Father is honored in your bearing a great deal of fruit and becoming my disciples. Just as the Father has loved me have I also loved you.

tinue in my love.

If you keep my commandments,

You will continue in my love,

Con

Just as I have kept my Father's commandments,

And continue in his love.

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete. My commandment is this, that you love each other just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you slaves. For the slave does not know what his master is doing. I have rather called you friends. For I have made known to you everything which I heard from my Father. You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you to go and keep bearing fruit and your fruit to continue, so that whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name he may give you.

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love each other. If the world hates you become acquainted with the fact that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world the world would have a personal affection for its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember what I told you, A slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word they will keep yours also. everything to you for my name's they do not know him who sent me.

But they will do sake, because

If I had not