“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

So from that day they planned together to kill him.

and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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.”

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

Then they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

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

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”