“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.  This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even 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 the things which I command you.  No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:  but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you.  Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide:  that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.  These things I command you, that ye may love one another.  If the world hated you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.  If ye were of the world, the world would love its own:  but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.  Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord.  If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, 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 excuse for their sin.  He that hateth me hateth my Father also.  If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin:  but now have they both seen and hated me and my Father.  But this cometh to pass, that the word may 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 bear witness of me:  and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

“These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.  They shall put you out of the synagogues:  yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.  And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.  But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you.  And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.  But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, ‘Whither goest thou?’ But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.  Nevertheless I tell you the truth:  It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.  And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:  of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;