Tuesday, October 18, 2016
John 15 and 16
John 15 NLT
1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father
is the gardener.
2 He cuts off every branch of mine that
doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they
will produce even more.
3 You have already been pruned and
purified by the message I have given you.
4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you.
For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you
cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.
5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the
branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For
apart from me you can do nothing.
6 Anyone who does not remain in me is
thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into
a pile to be burned.
7 But if you remain in me and my words
remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!
8 When you produce much fruit, you are my
true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has
loved me. Remain in my love.
10 When you obey my commandments, you
remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his
love.
11 I have told you these things so that you
will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!
12 This is my commandment: Love each other
in the same way I have loved you.
13 There is no greater love than to lay
down one’s life for one’s friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I
command.
15 I no longer call you slaves, because a
master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told
you everything the Father told me.
16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I
appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you
whatever you ask for, using my name.
17 This is my command: Love each
other.
18 “If the world hates you, remember that
it hated me first.
19 The world would love you as one of its
own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you
to come out of the world, so it hates you.
20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A
slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they
will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to
you.
21 They will do all this to you because of
me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.
22 They would not be guilty if I had not
come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Anyone who hates me also hates my
Father.
24 If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs
among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is,
they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.
25 This fulfills what is written in their
Scriptures : ‘They hated me without cause.’
26 “But I will send you the Advocate —the
Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about
me.
27 And you must also testify about me
because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.
John 16 NLT
1 “I have told you these things so that
you won’t abandon your faith.
2 For you will be expelled from the
synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are
doing a holy service for God.
3 This is because they have never known
the Father or me.
4 Yes, I’m telling you these things now,
so that when they happen, you will remember my warning. I didn’t tell you
earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.
5 “But now I am going away to the one who
sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going.
6 Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve
told you.
7 But in fact, it is best for you that I
go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I
will send him to you.
8 And when he comes, he will convict the
world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.
9 The world’s sin is that it refuses to
believe in me.
10Righteousness is available because I go to the
Father, and you will see me no more.
11 Judgment will come because the ruler of
this world has already been judged.
12 “There is so much more I want to tell
you, but you can’t bear it now.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will
guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what
he has heard. He will tell you about the future.
14 He will bring me glory by telling you
whatever he receives from me.
15 All that belongs to the Father is mine;
this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from
me.’
16 “In a little while you won’t see me
anymore. But a little while after that, you will see me again.”
17Some of the disciples asked each other, “What
does he mean when he says, ‘In a little while you won’t see me, but then you
will see me,’ and ‘I am going to the Father’?
18 And what does he mean by ‘a little
while’? We don’t understand.”
19 Jesus realized they wanted to ask him
about it, so he said, “Are you asking yourselves what I meant? I said in a
little while you won’t see me, but a little while after that you will see me
again.
20 I tell you the truth, you will weep and
mourn over what is going to happen to me, but the world will rejoice. You will
grieve, but your grief will suddenly turn to wonderful joy.
21 It will be like a woman suffering the
pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish gives way to joy because
she has brought a new baby into the world.
22 So you have sorrow now, but I will see
you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy.
23 At that time you won’t need to ask me
for anything. I tell you the truth, you will ask the Father directly, and he
will grant your request because you use my name.
24 You haven’t done this before. Ask, using
my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.
25 “I have spoken of these matters in
figures of speech, but soon I will stop speaking figuratively and will tell you
plainly all about the Father.
26Then you will ask in my name. I’m not saying I
will ask the Father on your behalf,
27 for the Father himself loves you dearly
because you love me and believe that I came from God.
28 Yes, I came from the Father into the
world, and now I will leave the world and return to the Father.”
29 Then his disciples said, “At last you
are speaking plainly and not figuratively.
30 Now we understand that you know
everything, and there’s no need to question you. From this we believe that you
came from God.”
31 Jesus asked, “Do you finally
believe?
32 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here
now—when you will be scattered, each one going his own way, leaving me alone.
Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
33 I have told you all this so that you may
have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take
heart, because I have overcome the world.”
John 13 and 14
John 13 NLT
1 Before the Passover celebration, Jesus
knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He
had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to
the very end.
2 It was time for supper, and the devil
had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
3 Jesus knew that the Father had given him
authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to
God.
4 So he got up from the table, took off
his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist,
5and poured water into a basin. Then he began
to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around
him.
6 When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter
said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now
what I am doing, but someday you will.”
8“No,” Peter protested, “you will never ever
wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to
me.”
9 Simon Peter exclaimed, “Then wash my
hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet!”
10 Jesus replied, “A person who has bathed
all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean. And
you disciples are clean, but not all of you.”
11 For Jesus knew who would betray him.
That is what he meant when he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 After washing their feet, he put on his
robe again and sat down and asked, “Do you understand what I was doing?
13You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are
right, because that’s what I am.
14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have
washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet.
15 I have given you an example to follow.
Do as I have done to you.
16 I tell you the truth, slaves are not
greater than their master. Nor is the messenger more important than the one who
sends the message.
17 Now that you know these things, God will
bless you for doing them.
18 “I am not saying these things to all of
you; I know the ones I have chosen. But this fulfills the Scripture that says,
‘The one who eats my food has turned against me.’
19 I tell you this beforehand, so that when
it happens you will believe that I AM the Messiah.
20 I tell you the truth, anyone who
welcomes my messenger is welcoming me, and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming
the Father who sent me.”
21 Now Jesus was deeply troubled, and he
exclaimed, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me!”
22 The disciples looked at each other,
wondering whom he could mean.
23 The disciple Jesus loved was sitting
next to Jesus at the table.
24 Simon Peter motioned to him to ask,
“Who’s he talking about?”
25 So that disciple leaned over to Jesus
and asked, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus responded, “It is the one to whom
I give the bread I dip in the bowl.” And when he had dipped it, he gave it to
Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.
27 When Judas had eaten the bread, Satan
entered into him. Then Jesus told him, “Hurry and do what you’re going to do.”
28 None of the others at the table knew
what Jesus meant.
29 Since Judas was their treasurer, some
thought Jesus was telling him to go and pay for the food or to give some money
to the poor.
30 So Judas left at once, going out into
the night.
31 As soon as Judas left the room, Jesus
said, “The time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory, and God
will be glorified because of him.
32 And since God receives glory because of
the Son, he will give his own glory to the Son, and he will do so at
once.
33 Dear children, I will be with you only a
little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but
you can’t come where I am going.
34 So now I am giving you a new
commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each
other.
35 Your love for one another will prove to
the world that you are my disciples.”
36 Simon Peter asked, “Lord, where are you
going?” And Jesus replied, “You can’t go with me now, but you will follow me
later.”
37 “But why can’t I come now, Lord?” he
asked. “I’m ready to die for you.”
38 Jesus answered, “Die for me? I tell you
the truth, Peter—before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three
times that you even know me.
John 14 NLT
1 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God, and trust also in me.
2There is more than enough room in my Father’s
home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a
place for you?
3 When everything is ready, I will come
and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.
4 And you know the way to where I am
going.”
5 “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said.
“We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
7 If you had really known me, you would
know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father,
and we will be satisfied.”
9 Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all
this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen
me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the
Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father
who lives in me does his work through me.
11 Just believe that I am in the Father and
the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me
do.
12 “I tell you the truth, anyone who
believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works,
because I am going to be with the Father.
13 You can ask for anything in my name, and
I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.
14 Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and
I will do it!
15 “If you love me, obey my
commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will
give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.
17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into
all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and
doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and
later will be in you.
18 No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I
will come to you.
19 Soon the world will no longer see me,
but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live.
20 When I am raised to life again, you will
know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 Those who accept my commandments and
obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will
love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”
22 Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other
disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal
yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”
23 Jesus replied, “All who love me will do
what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with
each of them.
24 Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey
me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the
Father who sent me.
25 I am telling you these things now while
I am still with you.
26 But when the Father sends the Advocate
as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and
will remind you of everything I have told you.
27 “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of
mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t
be troubled or afraid.
28 Remember what I told you: I am going
away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be
happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am.
29 I have told you these things before they
happen so that when they do happen, you will believe.
30 “I don’t have much more time to talk to
you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me,
31 but I will do what the Father requires
of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be
going.
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