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15:1  “I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.
15:2  Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
15:3  Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned.
15:4  Stay united with me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can’t put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can’t bear fruit apart from me.
15:5  “I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can’t do a thing.
15:6  Unless a person remains united with me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, where they are burned up.
15:7  “If you remain united with me, and my words with you, then ask whatever you want, and it will happen for you.
15:8  This is how my Father is glorified — in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my talmidim.
15:9  “Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love.
15:10  If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father’s commands and stay in his love.
15:11  I have said this to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy be complete.
15:12  “This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.
15:13  No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends.
15:14  You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
15:15  I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
15:16  You did not choose me, I chose you; and I have commissioned you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that whatever you ask from the Father in my name he may give you.
15:17  This is what I command you: keep loving each other!
15:18  “If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.
15:19  If you belonged to the world, the world would have loved its own. But because you do not belong to the world — on the contrary, I have picked you out of the world — therefore the world hates you.
15:20  Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.
15:21  But they will do all this to you on my account, because they don’t know the One who sent me.
15:22  “If I had not come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin; but now, they have no excuse for their sin.
15:23  Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
15:24  If I had not done in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father.
15:25  But this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’
15:26  “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who keeps going out from the Father — he will testify on my behalf.
15:27  And you testify too, because you have been with me from the outset.