"If
you love me, keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and
he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with
you forever,--the Spirit
of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither
knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
I will not leave you
orphans. I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the
world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will
live also. In that day
you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. One who has my commandments, and
keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be
loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to
him." Judas (not Iscariot)
said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal
yourself to us, and not to the world?"
Jesus answered him,
"If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father
will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
He who doesn't love me
doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the
Father's who sent me. I
have said these things to you, while still living with you. But the Counselor, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all
things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace
I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart
be troubled, neither let it be fearful. You heard how I told you, 'I go
away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced,
because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than
I. Now I have told you
before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. I will no more speak much with
you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. But that the world may know that
I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise,
let us go from here.
