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may abide with you to the age; 17 even the spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it discerneth it not, nor knoweth it; but ye shall know it; for it shall abide with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.

19" But a little time longer, and the world shall see me no more; but ye shall see me: because I live, ye also shall live. 20 In that day, ye shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is who loveth me: and he who loveth me, shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Master, how is it that thou wilt soon manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?" | 23 Jesus answered, and said to him, "If any man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him. 24 He who loveth me not, keepeth not my words and yet the word which ye hear, is not mine, but the Father's, who sent me.

25 “These things I tell you, while I abide with you. 26 But the advocate, even the holy spirit which the Father will send in my name, shall teach you all things, and shall bring to your remembrance all things

that I have spoken to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; not as the world giveth, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be dismayed.

28"Ye have heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and will come again to you.' If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I go to the Father: for [my] Father is greater than I. 29 And now I tell you, before it come to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe. 30 Hereafter, I shall not talk much with you; for the prince of the world is coming, and hath nothing in me.* 31 But this must be, that the world may know that I love the Father, and act in such manner as the Father hath commanded me.† Arise let us go hence.

CH. XV. 1 "I AM the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me which beareth not fruit, he taketh away and every branch which beareth fruit, he pruneth, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Ye are already pruned, through the doctrine which I have taught you. 4 Abide in me; and I will abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it remain in the vine; so neither can ye, unless ye continue in me.

5 "I am the vine; ye are the branches. He that continueth in me, and I in him, he beareth much fruit: for, sepa

* Some good copies read, "but will find nothing in me." q. d. I shall soon be arrested and brought before the tribunal of the magistrate as a criminal: but no crime will be proved against me. See ch. xii. 31, and the note there.

The ruler of this world is coming: and I have nothing now to do but to convince the world that I love the Father, and do as he commanded me." Wakefield.

rated from me, ye can do nothing. 6 If any one continue not in me, he shall be thrown away, like a separated branch, and shall wither: and such are gathered together, and cast into a fire, to be burned. 7 If ye continue in me, and my words continue in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done for you.

8" Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so ye will be my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye will continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and thereby continue in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may continue, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is my commandment; that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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22" If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among 13 "No one can show his them such works as none other love more, than by laying down ever did, they would not have his life for his friends. 14 Ye had sin: but now, though they are my friends, if ye do whatso-have seen these works, yet they ever I command you. 15 Hence- hate both me, and my Father. forth, I call you not servants; 25 But thus is fulfilled the sayfor the servant knoweth noting written in their law, They what his master doth: but I hated me without a cause.' call you friends; for all things which I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

16" Ye have not chosen me; but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that ye may go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit may continue: that whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give you.

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26" But when the advocate is come, which I will send to you from the Father, even the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he will testify of me. 27 And ye also shall testify, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

CH. XVI. 1" These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not fall away. 2 They will

put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he offereth sacrifice to God. 3 And these things they will do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

14" He will glorify me: for he will receive of mine, and will declare it to you. 15 All things which the Father hath are mine :* therefore, I have said, that he will receive of mine, and will declare it to you. 16 A little time, and ye will not see me; and again, a little time, and ye will see me; [because I go to the Father]."

17 Then said some of his disciples, amongst themselves,

4" But these things I have spoken to you, that, when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But" What is this which he saith now I depart to him who sent me; and no one of you asketh me, 'Whither goest thou?' 6 But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

in me;

7 "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth it is advantageous to you that I go away: for if I go not away, the advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he is come, he will convict the world of sin, and of rightcousness,and of condemnation: 9 of sin, because they believe not 10 of righteousness, because I go to [my Father, and ye see me no longer; 11 of condemnation, because the prince of this world is condemned. 12I have still many things to say to you; but ye cannot bear them now. 13 However, when he cometh, even the spirit of truth, he will guide you into all the truth: for he will not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that he will speak: and he will show you things to come.

to us, 'A little time, and ye will not see me: and again, a little time, and ye will see me :' and, Because I go to the Father P'" 18 They said, therefore, "What is this which he saith,' A little time?' we do not comprehend what he speaketh."

19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said to them, "Do ye inquire amongst yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little time, and ye will not see me: and again, a little time, and ye will see me?" 20 Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: [and] ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

21 "A woman, when she is in travail, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the affliction, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22 And thus ye have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your

"Every thing which relates to the kingdom of God, in the world, is committed to my rection and superintendence." Dr. Priestley.

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heart shall rejoice, and your joy | thou camest forth from God." no one shall take from you. 23 31 Jesus answered them, "Do And in that day, ye shall request ye now believe? 32 Behold, nothing of me: Verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father, in my name, he will give you. 24 Hitherto, ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

25 "These things I have spoken to you in dark speeches: the time is coming when I shall no more speak to you in dark speeches, but I shall show you, plainly, concerning the Father. 26 In that day, ye shall ask in my name; and I say not to you that I will request the Father for you: 27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye love me, and believe that I came forth from God.* 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, 1 leave the world, and go to the Father."

29 His disciples said to him, "Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no dark speech. 30 Now, we know that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any one should ask thee: by this we believe that

the hour is coming, yea, is [now] come, that ye will be scattered every one to his own home, and will leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have affliction: but be of good courage; I have overcome the world."

CH. XVII. 1 JESUS spake these words, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son [also] may glorify thee: 2 as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give aionian life to all whom thou hast given him. 3 And this is the aionian life, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.† 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou hast given me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.‡

6 "I have manifested thy

*I came forth from the Father, q. d. I was sent by him as his messenger to mankind. See

ch. i. 6. xiii. 3.

Observe, here, that there is but one true God, and that Jesus Christ is expressly excluded from being that true God, and contra-distinguished from him as his messenger.

Or, as Mr. Wakefield renders it, "with that glory, thine own glory, which I had before the world was." The glory which is the object of our Lord's petition is that glory of which he speaks, ver. 22; the glory of instructing and converting mankind, verses 8-14. This glory he had given to his apostles, ver. 22; that is, he intended it for them. The same glory the Father had given to him: that is, had reserved it for him, and purposed to bestow it upon him. He had it therefore with the Father before the world was, that is, in the Father's purpose and decree. In the language of the scriptures, what God determines to bring to pass is represented as actually accom plished. Thus, the dead are represented as living, Luke xx. 36, 37, 38. Believers are spoken of as already glorified, Rom. viii. 29, 30. Things that are not, are called as though they were, Rom. iv. 17. And in ver. 12, of this chapter, Judas is said to be destroyed; though he was then living. and actually bargaining with the priests and rulers to betray his master. See also ver. 10. Epb. i. 4; 2 Tim. i. 9; Rev. xiii. 8; Heb. x. 34; Eph. i. 4; 2 Tim. i. 9; Rev. xiii. 8; Heb. x. 34.

name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world: they were thine, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.

7 "Now they know that all things, whatsoever thou hast given me, are from thee. 8 For I have given them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have surely known that I came forth from thee, and have believed thou hast sent me. 9 I request for them; I request not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified through them.

11 "And now I am no longer in the world; but these are in the world, and I shall go to thee. Holy Father, keep them in that name of thine which thou hast given me; that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them [in the world] I kept them in thy name: those whom thou hast given me, I have preserved; and none of them is destroyed, but the son of destruction; so that the scripture is fulfilled.* 13 But now I go to thee, and I speak these things in the world, that they may have my joy on their account completed in them. 14 I have given them thy words; and the world hath hated them, because

they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. 15 I request not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from evil.

16 "They are not of the world; as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.† 19 And for their sakes, I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth.

20" Nor do I pray for these only, but for those, also, who shall believe in me, through their words; 21 that all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be [one] in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them; that they may be one, as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me; that they may be perfected in one; ‡ [and] that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24"Father, I will that those also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me, where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not

*See ch. xviii. 7-9; by which it will be seen that this destruction or loss was a temporal loss only.

This text shows, that to be sent into the world, does not express or imply a pre-existent state, but a divine commission for the instruction of mankind.

To" be one," to "be perfected in one," and "we are one," mean here exactly the same thing, and the same here as in chi. x. 30, which see.

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