1Under the parable of a vine Christ setteth forth God's government of his church, and exhorteth his disciples to abide in his faith and doctrine: 12he commandeth them to love one another, according to the great love he had shewed for them: 18forewarneth them of the hatred and persecution of the world: 26and telleth them of the testimony which the Holy Ghost, and they also, shall bear to him.
1I aAM the true vine, and my Father is bthe *husbandman.
*husbandman-farmer.
a Is. 4.2; 11.1. Je. 23.5. Zec. 3.8; 6.12. ch. 1.9; 6.32,35. Ps. 80.8. b Ca. 8.12. Is. 5.1. Mat. 20.1; 21.33. 1Co. 3.9. Is. 60.21.
2cEvery branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and devery branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
c Mat. 15.13. Lu. 13.7; 3.9. Mat. 13.41,42. v.6. He. 6.8. d He. 12.15. Re. 3.19. Is. 27.9. Ep. 5.26,9. Ga. 5.22,23. 2Pe. 1.5-9.
3eNow ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
e ch. 13.10; 17.17. 1Pe. 1.22. Ep. 5.26.
4fAbide in me, and I in you. gAs the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
f Ga. 2.20. Col. 2.6,7; 1.23. 1Jn. 2.6. Is. 45.24,25. ch. 6.56. g ch. 6.68; 1.14,16. v.5. Ho. 14.8. Ga. 2.20. Ac. 4.12. Phi. 1.11; 4.13.
5I am the vine, ye are the branches: hHe that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for 1without me ye can do nothing.
1Or, severed from me.
h Ho. 14.8. Phi. 1.11. ch. 1.14,16. Ga. 5.22-24. 2Pe. 1.2-8; 3.18. Col. 2.9-12,19. 2Co. 3.5. Ro. 6.5. Ep. 4.15,16; 5.30.
6iIf 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.
i Ps. 1.4; 21.9,10. Mat. 3.10; 7.19. 2Ti. 3.13. Jude 12. Mat. 25.26,41; 13.40-42. He. 6.4-8; 10.26-31. 2Pe. 2.20-22. Re. 20.15; 21.8.
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, jye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
j ch. 14.13,14; 16.23,24. v.16. 1Jn. 3.22; 5.14. Ja. 5.16. Is. 58.9; 65.24. Job 22.27.
8kHerein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; lso shall ye be my disciples.
k Ps. 92.13-15. Mat. 5.16. Ep. 1.12. Phi. 1.11. 1Pe. 2.12; 4.11. 1Co. 6.20. l ch. 8.31; 13.35. Mat. 5.44,45. Lu. 6.35.
9mAs the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: ncontinue ye in my love.
m Mat. 3.17; 12.18. Col. 1.13. Ga. 2.20. Re. 1.5. n 1Jn. 4.16. Ga. 2.20. Jude 21.
10oIf ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
o v.14. ch. 14.15,21,23. 1Jn. 2.5. Is. 42.1. ch. 10.17.
11pThese things have I spoken unto you, that qmy joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
p ch. 14.29; 16.24; 17.24,13. 1Jn. 1.4. q 2Co. 2.3.
12rThis is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
r ch. 13.34,35. Ep. 5.2. 1Th. 4.9. 1Pe. 1.22; 4.8. 1Jn. 3.14,16; 4.21. v.17.
13sGreater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
s Ro. 5.6-8. Jn. 3.16. Ep. 5.2. Ga. 2.20. ch. 10.10,11,15. 1Jn. 4.10.
14tYe are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
t v.10. ch. 14.15,23. 2Ch. 20.7. Ja. 2.23. Is. 41.8. Mat. 12.50.
15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; ufor all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
u Ge. 18.17. Ps. 25.14. ch. 17.8,26. Ep. 1.9; 3.5. Col. 1.26. 2Ti. 3.15-17. Mat. 13.11.
16vYe have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and wordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that xwhatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
v 1Jn. 4.10,19. ch. 6.70; 13.18,19. w Mat. 28.19,20. Mar. 16.15. ch. 4.36; 20.21-23. Ac. 28.28; 13.46,47. Ep. 2.10; 3.5-8. Ga. 1.16. Col. 1.6,23,26. Ac. 2.1. x ch. 14.13,14. Is. 45.11. Mat. 7.7,11. 2Co. 3.5. Mat. 21.22. v.7.
17yThese things I command you, that ye love one another.
y v.12.
18zIf the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
z Mat. 10.22,25. 1Jn. 3.1,13. Ja. 4.4. Ps. 22; 69. Is. 53.
19aIf ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but bbecause ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
a Ep. 5.7,11. 1Jn. 4.5; 2.16. b ch. 17.14,16. Ro. 12.2. 1Pe. 4.4. Ja. 4.4. 1Jn. 2.16,17.
20Remember the word that I said unto you, cThe servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; dif they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
c ch. 13.16. Mat. 10.24,25. Lu. 6.40. ch. 5.16,18; 7.32; 8.40,59; 9.22; 10.31,39; 11.46-57. Ac. 2-26. 1Th. 2.14,15. d Is. 53.1-3. Eze. 3.7.
21eBut all these things will they do unto you ffor my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
e Is. 66.5. Mat. 5.11; 10.22; 24.9. ch. 16.3; 8.19. 1Co. 2.8. 1Ti. 1.13. f 1Pe. 4.14,16.
22gIf I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no 2cloke for their sin.
2Or, excuse.
g Mat. 7.28. ch. 3.2; 7.46; 9.39,41. v.24. Ac. 17.30. Ja. 4.17. Eze. 2.5. Lu. 12.47,48. He. 6.4-8; 10.26-31. Ro. 1.20-32.
23hHe that hateth me hateth my Father also.
h ch. 5.38; 8.19,47; 12.49; 14.9-11. 1Jn. 2.23. 2Jn. 9.
24iIf I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: jbut now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
i ch. 7.31; 10.37. Mat. 11.5. Lu. 24.19. Mar. 1-10. Ac. 2.22; 10.38. He. 2.4. j ch. 5-12. Mat. 4; 8-22. Lu. 4-20. ch. 3.2; 9.32.
25But this cometh to pass , kthat the word might be fulfilled that is written in ltheir law, They hated me without a cause.
k Mat. 5.18. ch. 19.24,28,36. Ps. 35.19; 69.4. l ch. 10.34.
26But mwhen 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:
m Lu. 24.49. ch. 14.16,17,26; 16.7,13,14. Ac. 2.33. Ro. 8.9. Ga. 4.6. 1Jn. 2.20,27; 5.6,8.
27nAnd ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
n Ac. 1.8,21,22; 2.32; 3.15; 5.32; 4.20,33; 10.39,41; 13.31. 1Pe. 5.1. 2Pe. 1.16. 1Jn. 1.1-3. Lu. 1.2,3; 24.48. Mar. 1.1.