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If you keep My commandments you will continue in My love, as I have kept My Father's commandments and continue in His love.

Greater love than this has no one, that anyone should lay down his soul for his friends.

I no longer call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord does. But I called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I made known to you.

Remember the Word which I said to you, A slave is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted Me, they also will persecute you. If they kept My Word, they also will keep yours.

Then His disciples said to one another, What is this which He says to us, A little while , and you do not see me; and again, A little and you will see Me? And, Because I go away to the Father?

His disciples said to Him, Behold, now You speak plainly and You say no allegory.

Behold, an hour is coming, and now has come, that you are scattered, each one to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Jesus spoke these things and lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may also glorify You,

Having said these things, Jesus went out with His disciples across the winter stream Kidron, where there was a garden into which He and His disciples entered.

And Judas, the one betraying Him, also knew the place, because Jesus many times assembled there with His disciples.

Then having a sword, Simon Peter drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. And the slave's name was Malchus.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His doctrine.

But on His having said these things, one of the under-officers standing by gave Jesus a blow with the palm, saying, Do You answer the high priest this way?

And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself . Then they said to him, Are you not also of His disciples? He denied and said, I am not.

And having plaited a wreath out of thorns, the soldiers put it on His head. And they threw a purple mantle around Him,

And He went out bearing His cross, to the place called Of a Skull (which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha),

Then when they crucified Jesus, the soldiers took His garments and made four parts, a part to each soldier, also the tunic. And the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout.

And His mother, and His mother's sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood by the cross of Jesus.

Then seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, Jesus said to His mother, Woman, behold your son!

Then He said to the disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour, the disciple took her into his own home .