Chapter LXV

JESUS THE TRUE VINE--HATRED OF THE WORLD.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
_branch_ that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring
forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I
have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no
more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye _are_
the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast _them_ into the fire,
and they are burned.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my
Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall
abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments
and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you,
that my joy might remain in you, and _that_ your joy might be
full.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have
loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do
whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants;
for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have
called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my
Father I have made known unto you.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and _that_ your
fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command
you, that ye love one another.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before _it
hated_ you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of
the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will
keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you
for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me
hateth my Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which none other man
did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and
hated both me and my Father. But _this cometh to pass_, that
the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law. They
hated me without a cause.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, _even_ the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from
the Father, he shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear
witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.