The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament (110 page)

12
 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father.
¹³
Whatever you ask
in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
¹⁴
if you ask
^g
anything in my name, I will do it.

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

15
 "
If you love me
, you will keep my commandments.
¹⁶
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor
, to be with you for ever,
¹⁷
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells
with you, and will be in you
.

18
 "I will not leave you
desolate
; I will come to you.
¹⁹
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also.
²⁰
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
²¹
He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
²²
Judas (not Iscariot)
said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?"
²³
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make
our home with him
.
²⁴
He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

25
 "These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you.
²⁶
But the Counselor,
the Holy Spirit
, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things,
 
*
and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
²⁷
Peace I leave with you;
my peace
I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
²⁸
You heard me say to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for
the Father is greater than I
.
²⁹
And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe.
³⁰
I will no longer talk much with you, for the
ruler of this world
is coming. He has no power over me;
³¹
but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that
I love the Father
. Rise, let us go from here.

Jesus the True Vine

15
  
"I am
the true vine
, and my Father is the vinedresser.
¹⁵
Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit
he prunes
, that it may bear more fruit.
³
You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
⁵
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that
bears much fruit
, for apart from me you can do nothing.
⁶
If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered,
thrown into the fire
and burned.
⁷
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
⁸
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.
⁹
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
¹⁰
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept
my Father's commandments
and abide in his love.
¹¹
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

12
 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
¹³
Greater love
has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
¹⁴
You are
my friends
if you do what I command you.
¹⁵
No longer do I call you servants,
^h
for the servant
ⁱ
does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
¹⁶
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
¹⁷
This I command you, to love one another.

The World's Hatred

18
 "
If the world hates you
, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
 
*
¹⁹
If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
²⁰
Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant
ⁱ
is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
²¹
But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.
²²
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have
no excuse
for their sin.
²³
He who hates me hates my Father also.
²⁴
If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
²⁵
It is to fulfil the word that is written in
their law
, 'They hated me without a cause.'
²⁶
But when the Counselor comes,
whom I shall send
to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me;
²⁷
and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.

16
  "I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away.
²
They will put you
out of the synagogues
; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
³
And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.
⁴
But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them.

The Work of the Spirit

"I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
⁵
But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, '
Where are you going
?'
⁶
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.
⁷
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is
to your advantage
that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
⁸
And when he comes,
he will convince
the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment:
⁹
of sin, because they do not believe in me;
¹⁰
of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more;
 
*
¹¹
of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12
 "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
¹³
When the Spirit of truth comes,
he will guide you
into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
¹⁴
He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
¹⁵
All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and
declare it to you
.

Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

16
 "A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me."
¹⁷
Some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I go to the Father'?"
¹⁸
They said, "What does he mean by '
a little while
'? We do not know what he means."
¹⁹
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'?
²⁰
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
²¹
When a woman is in labor, she has pain, because
her hour has come
; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child
^j
is born into the world.
²²
So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
²³
In that day you will
ask nothing
of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
²⁴
Until now you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Peace for the Disciples

25
 "I have said this to you
in figures
; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father.
²⁶
In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall ask the Father for you;
²⁷
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.
²⁸
I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

29
 His disciples said, "Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure!
³⁰
Now we know that
you know all things
, and need none to question you; by this we believe that you came from God."
³¹
Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?
³²
The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when
you will be scattered
, every man to his home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
³³
I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

Jesus Prays for the Church

17
  
When
Jesus had spoken
these words, he
lifted up his eyes
to heaven and said,
 
* "Father, the hour has come;
glorify
your Son that the Son may glorify you,
²
since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
³
And this is
eternal life
, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
⁴
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do;
⁵
and now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made.
 
*

6
 "I have
manifested your name
to the men whom you gave me out of the world; they were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
⁷
Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you;
⁸
for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
⁹
I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours;
¹⁰
all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
¹¹
And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even
as we are one
.
¹²
While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but
the son of perdition
, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
¹³
But now I am coming to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
¹⁴
I have given them your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world
.
¹⁵
I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them
from the evil one
.
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16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
¹⁷
Sanctify them
in the truth; your word is truth.
¹⁸
As you sent me into the world,
so I have sent them
into the world.
¹⁹
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.