“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

This I command you – to love one another.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Then the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up.

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”