1 "I am the *[Jer. 2:21] true vine, and my Father is *[1 Cor. 3:9]the vinedresser.2 *ver. 6;Matt. 3:10;7:19;[Rom. 11:17;2 Pet. 1:8] Every branch in me that does not bear fruit *[Matt. 15:13;Rom. 11:22] he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, *[Matt. 13:12]that it may bear more fruit.3 Already *ch. 13:10you are clean *ch. 17:17;[ver. 7; Eph. 5:26]because of the word that I have spoken to you.4 *ver. 5-7;1 John 2:6;[Phil. 1:11;Col. 1:23]; See ch. 6:56Abide *See ch. 3:15in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.5 I am the vine; *Rom. 6:5you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that *ver. 16;Col. 1:6,10bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.6 If anyone does not abide in me, *See ver. 2he is thrown away like a branch and withers; *Matt. 13:40-42;[Ezek. 15:4]and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.7 If *See ch. 8:31you abide in me, and my words abide in you, *See ch. 14:13ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.8 *Isa. 61:3;Matt. 5:16;2 Cor. 9:13;Phil. 1:11By this my Father is glorified, that you *ver. 5bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.9 *See ch. 5:20As the Father has loved me, *See ch. 13:34so have I loved you. Abide in my love.10 *[ch. 14:15,23] If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as *ch. 8:55;17:4;Phil. 2:8I have kept *See ch. 10:18my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.11 These things I have spoken to you, *[2 Cor. 2:3] that my joy may be in you, and that *ch. 3:29;16:24;17:13;1 John 1:4;2 John 12your joy may be full.

12 *See ch. 13:34"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.13 *Rom. 5:7,8;Eph. 5:2Greater love has no one than this, *See ch. 10:11that someone lay down his life for his friends.14 You are *Luke 12:4my friends *[ver. 10;Matt. 12:50]if you do what I command you.15 *[ver. 20] No longer do I call you servants,*15:15 Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20for the servant *[ch. 13:7,12] does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for *ch. 3:32;8:26,40;[ch. 16:13] all that I have heard from my Father *ch. 17:26;[Gen. 18:17;1 Cor. 2:16;13:9,10]I have made known to you.16 You did not choose me, but *See ch. 13:18I chose you and appointed you that you should go and *[2 John 8] bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that *[ver. 7]; See ch. 14:13whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.17 These things I command you, *ver. 12so that you will love one another.

18 *ch. 7:7;1 John 3:13;[ver. 23, 24]"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.19 *[1 John 4:5] If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because *ch. 17:14,16;[Luke 6:26;Gal. 1:4;James 4:4]you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.20 Remember the word that I said to you: *ch. 13:16;Matt. 10:24;[ver. 15] ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, *ch. 16:33;1 Cor. 4:12;2 Cor. 4:9;1 Thess. 2:15;2 Tim. 3:12they will also persecute you. *[Ezek. 3:7]; See ch. 8:51If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.21 But *ch. 16:3all these things they will do to you *Matt. 10:22;24:9;Rev. 2:3;[Acts 5:41;1 Pet. 4:14,16] on account of my name, *See Acts 3:17because they do not know him who sent me.22 If I had not come and spoken to them, *[Matt. 11:22,24;Luke 12:47,48]; See ch. 9:41they would not have been guilty of sin,*15:22 Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24but now they have no excuse for their sin.23 *See ch. 5:23Whoever hates me hates my Father also.24 *ch. 3:2;7:31;9:32;Matt. 9:33;[ch. 10:32,37] If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, *[See ver. 22above] they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have *See ch. 14:9seen and hated both me and my Father.25 But *See ch. 10:34;12:38the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: *Cited from Ps. 35:19or 69:4‘They hated me without a cause.’

26 "But *See ch. 14:16,17,26when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, *1 Cor. 12:3;1 John 5:7he will bear witness about me.27 And *ch. 19:35;21:24;1 John 1:2;4:14;[3 John 12]; See Luke 24:48you also will bear witness, *See Acts 4:20because you have been with me *[Luke 1:2;Acts 1:21,22;1 John 2:7]from the beginning.