1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. 6 Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you. 8 In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

9 As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. 10 If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full. 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you. 15 I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and that ye should bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you. 20 Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours. 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He that hates me hates also my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me; 27 and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from the beginning.

1 „Mina olen tõeline viinapuu ja minu Isa on aednik. 2 Iga viljatu oksa lõikab ta minu küljest ära. Iga viljakandvat oksa ta puhastab, et see kannaks veel enam vilja. 3 Teie olete juba puhtad õpetuse tõttu, mille ma olen teile andnud. 4 Jääge minusse, ja mina jään teisse. Nagu oks ei saa kanda vilja omaette; ta peab jääma viinapuu külge. Nii ka teie ei kanna vilja, kui te ei jää minusse.

5 Mina olen viinapuu, teie olete oksad. Kes jääb minusse ja mina temasse, see kannab palju vilja, sest minust lahus ei saa te midagi teha. 6 Kes ei jää minusse, on nagu äravisatud oks – ta kuivab. Need korjatakse kokku, visatakse tulle ja põletatakse ära. 7 Kui te jääte minusse ja minu sõnad jäävad teisse, siis paluge, mida te iganes soovite, ja see sünnib teile. 8 See toob au minu Isale, kui te kannate palju vilja näidates, et te olete minu jüngrid.

9 Nõnda nagu Isa on armastanud mind, olen mina armastanud teid. Jääge minu armastusse! 10 Kui te peate kinni minu käskudest, siis te jääte minu armastusse, nagu mina olen pidanud kinni oma Isa käskudest ja jään tema armastusse. 11 Seda ma olen rääkinud teile, et minu rõõm oleks teis ja teie rõõm oleks täielik. 12 Minu käsk on see: armastage üksteist, nii nagu mina olen teid armastanud! 13 Ei ole suuremat armastust kui see, et keegi loovutab elu oma sõprade eest. 14 Teie olete mu sõbrad, kui te teete, mida ma teid käsin. 15 Ma ei nimeta teid enam sulasteks. Sulane ju ei tea, mida ta isand teeb. Ma nimetan teid sõpradeks, sest ma olen teile teada andnud kõik, mida ma olen kuulnud oma Isalt. 16 Teie ei ole valinud mind. Mina olen valinud teid ja määranud nii, et te läheksite välja ja kannaksite vilja, mis jääb kestma. Ja mida iganes te minu nimel palute, seda Isa annab teile. 17 See on mu käsk: armastage üksteist!

18 Kui maailm teid vihkab, siis teadke, et mind on ta vihanud enne teid. 19 Kui te kuuluksite maailmale, küll maailm siis armastaks teid kui omi. Aga et te ei kuulu maailmale, vaid mina olen teid maailmast välja valinud, seepärast maailm vihkab teid. 20 Tuletage meelde, mis ma teile ütlesin: „Ei ole teener suurem oma isandast." Kui nad on mind taga kiusanud, siis nad hakkavad ka teid taga kiusama. Kui nad aga on pidanud kinni minu õpetusest, siis peavad nad kinni ka teie omast. 21 Nad teevad seda teile minu nime pärast, kuna nad ei tunne teda, kes mind saatis. 22 Kui ma ei oleks tulnud ja nendega rääkinud, siis ei oleks nad ka süüdi patus. Nüüd aga ei saa nad vabandada oma pattu. 23 Kes vihkab mind, vihkab ka minu Isa. 24 Kui ma ei oleks nende nähes teinud tegusid, mida ei ole teinud keegi teine, siis poleks nad patus süüdi. Nüüd aga on nad näinud neid tegusid ning vihanud nii mind kui ka minu Isa. 25 Nõnda läheb täide, mis on kirjas nende Seaduses: „Nad on vihanud mind ilma põhjuseta."

26 Ent kui tuleb Abistaja, kelle ma teile Isa juurest saadan, Tõe Vaim, kes lähtub Isast, siis tema tunnistab minust. 27 Ja teiegi peate tunnistama, sest te olete olnud koos minuga algusest peale.