Outline
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
3. Jesus' prayer (ch. 17)
Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
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.”
