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And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.

And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever,

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.

You heard me say to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me;

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.

The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, every man to his home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine;