1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

8 "In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. 9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another. 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also. 24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. 27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

1 „Mina olen tõeline viinapuu ja Minu Isa on viinamäe aednik.

2 Iga oksa Minu küljes, mis ei kanna vilja, Tema kõrvaldab ja igaüht, mis kannab vilja, Tema puhastab, et see kannaks rohkem vilja.

3 Teie olete juba puhtad selle sõna pärast, mis Mina teile rääkinud!

4 Jääge Minusse ja Mina jään teisse. Nagu oks ei või vilja kanda iseenesest, kui ta ei jää viinapuu külge, nõnda ka teie, kui te ei jää Minusse.

5 Mina olen viinapuu, teie olete oksad; kes jääb Minusse ja Mina temasse, see kannab palju vilja; sest ilma Minuta ei või te midagi teha!

6 Kui keegi ei jää Minusse, siis ta heidetakse välja nagu viinapuu oks ning kuivab ära. Ja nad kogutakse kokku ja heidetakse tulle ning põletatakse ära.

7 Kui te jääte Minusse ja Minu sõnad jäävad teisse, siis paluge, mis te iganes tahate, ja see sünnib teile!

8 Selles on Minu Isa austatud, et te kannate palju vilja ja osutute Minu jüngriteks.

9 Otsegu Minu Isa on armastanud Mind, nõnda olen ka Mina teid armastanud; jääge Minu armastusse.

10 Kui te peate Minu käsusõnu, siis te jääte Minu armastusse, nõnda nagu Mina olen pidanud Oma Isa käsusõnu ja jään Tema armasusse.

11 Seda Ma olen teile rääkinud, et Minu rõõm oleks teie sees ja teie rõõm saaks täielikuks.

12 See on Minu käsusõna, et te armastaksite üksteist nõnda nagu Mina teid olen armastanud!

13 Suuremat armastust ei ole kellelgi kui see, et ta jätab oma elu oma sõprade eest!

14 Teie olete Mu sõbrad, kui te teete, mida Mina teid käsin.

15 Ma ei ütle teid enam orjad olevat, sest ori ei tea, mida ta isand teeb. Vaid Ma olen teid nimetanud sõpradeks, sest Ma olen teile teada annud kõik, mis Ma Oma Isalt olen kuulnud.

16 Mitte teie ei ole Mind valinud, vaid Mina olen teid valinud ja olen teid seadnud, et te läheksite ja kannaksite vilja ja et teie vili jääks ja Isa teile annaks, mida te iganes palute Minu nimel.

17 Seda Ma käsin teid, et te armastaksite üksteist!

18 Kui maailm teid vihkab, siis teadke, et ta Mind on enne teid vihanud.

19 Kui te oleksite maailmast, siis maailm armastaks oma. Aga et te ei ole maailmast, vaid Mina olen teid ära valinud maailmast, sellepärast vihkab teid maailm!

20 Pidage meeles seda sõna, mis Ma teile olen ütelnud: Ei ole ori suurem oma isandast! On nemad Mind taga kiusanud, siis nad kiusavad teidki taga. On nad pidanud Minu sõna, siis nad peavad teiegi sõna.

21 Aga seda kõike nad teevad teile Minu nime pärast, sest nad ei tunne Teda, Kes Mind on läkitanud.

22 Kui Ma ei oleks tulnud ega oleks neile rääkinud, siis ei oleks neil pattu. Aga nüüd ei ole neil oma pattu millegagi vabandada.

23 Kes vihkab Mind, see vihkab Mu Isa!

24 Kui Ma ei oleks nende keskel teinud neid tegusid, mida ükski muu ei ole teinud, ei oleks neil pattu, aga nüüd on nad näinud ja vihanud niihästi Mind kui Mu Isa.

25 Aga see on sündinud, et läheks täide sõna, mis on kirjutatud nende käsuõpetuses: Nad on Mind vihanud ilmaasjata!

26 Aga kui Trööstija tuleb, kelle Mina teile läkitan Isalt, tõe Vaim, Kes lähtub Isast, See tunnistab Minust.

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