The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over 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.”

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

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.

Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment –

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.