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If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am leaving, but I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father; for he is greater than I.

"I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it.

The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.

They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.'

But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for them to do these things, you will remember what I told you. "I did not tell you these things at the beginning, for I was with you.

But I am telling you the truth: it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you.

"I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear.

"When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth: the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.

for the Father himself loves you. He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God.

For you gave him authority over all people, so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those you gave me, for they belong to you.

And for their sake I dedicate myself to you, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to you.

"I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in me because of their message.

"Father! You have given them to me, and I want them to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, the glory you gave me; for you loved me before the world was made.

I made you known to them, and I will continue to do so, in order that the love you have for me may be in them, and so that I also may be in them."