John - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1037

xo If you keep My commands, you will continue in My love; just as I have kept the commands of My Father,

11 and continue in His love. I have I2 16 18 20 Z! 22 26 spoken to you so that My delight may be in you, and your delight may be perfect; My command is this: that you love one anotheri. just as I have loved you. Stronger love has no one than this, that one should lay down his own life for his friends. You are My friends, if you are doing what I am commanding you. I no longer call you servants; because the servant does not know what his master is doing: but I have called you My friends; because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. It was not you who chose Me, but I have chosen you. And I planted you in order that you might take root, and become fruitful, and your fruit continue; so that what- ever you may ask, the Father in My Name, He may grant it you. I am giving these commands in order. that you may love one another. lf the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before hating you. Had _you belonged to the world, the world would have loved its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you-from out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. Think of that remark which I made to you: YA servant is not superior to his master} If they persecute Me, they will also persecute you. If they had obeyed My message, they would obey yours as well. But they will do all this to you because of My Name, because they knew not Him Who sent Me. Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not havebeen guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. T hose who hate Me, alsohate My Father. Had I not done among them deeds which have been done by no one else, they would not have been guilty of sin; as it is, they have witnessed, and have hated both Me and My Father. But thus is accomplished the statement recorded in their law: ‘Tnnv nxrnn Mz wrrnoor A cause}! When, how- ever, the Helper comes, Whom I Myself, will send you from the Father, evidence about Me,_and you also can corroborate, because you have been with Me from the beginning. Qntillyristiun Zeal. ‘ All this I have told you, in order

that you should not falter. They will expel you hom their synagogues; not only so, but a time is now coming when every one_who murders you will imagine that he is offering a sacrifice to God. And they will do this be- cause they neither recognised the Father nor Myself. I have told you all these, however, so that when the time does come for them, you may be reminded that I told you of them. Yet I avoided telling you at the be~ ginning, because I was with you. Now, however, I am going to My Sender, and none of you ask Me, ‘ Where are You going P ’ 16 W12 Eoin Spirit cub il): merit. ‘ Yet because I have spoken to you

in this way, your hearts are full of sadness. I have, however, told you nothing but the truth. It is better for you that I should take My leave of you: because if I do not depart, the Helper will certainly not come to you; but when -I depart, I will send Him to you. He, on His coming, will bring conviction to the world about a Sin; and about a Rectifica· tion; and about }ustice: aboutaSin, because they have not confided in Me; about a Rectilication, when I go to the Father, and you see Me no longer; about justice, when the Leader of this Conspiracy is con- victed; I0 I! Wliz Quin Spirit as iuztrnrtnr. ‘I have still much more to tell

you; but youare not yet able to bear it. When, however, the Spirit of Truth Himself comes, He will instruct you in all the truth: for His utter- ances do not proceed from Himself; but just what I-Ie learns He will de- clare, and the events that are coming He will announce to you. He Him- self will honour Me; because what He receives from Me, He will transmit to you. All that the Father possesses It is of Mine that He takes and transmits to you.’ Only alittle while, and you will not see Me; and again alittle while, and you shall see Me! 1037 12 16