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Many are the mansions of my Father's house: and if not, I would have told you; for I go to prepare for you a place.

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

And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, I will do for you, that the Father may be glorified in his Son.

and I will pray of my Father, and another Paraclete [fn] will he give you, who will be with you for ever,

the Spirit of truth, he whom the world cannot receive, because it doth not see him, nor know him. But you know him; for with you he dwelleth, and in you is.

I will not leave you orphans; for I will come to you a little after.

And the world seeth me not, but you shall see me; for because I live, you also shall live.

You have heard what I have told you, that I go, and come to you (again). If you had loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to my Father; for my Father is greater than I.

Henceforth I will not speak with you much; for the ruler of the world cometh, and in me hath he nothing.

Love which is greater than this is not, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth you.

If I had not come and spoken with them, they had not had sin; but now have they no pretext for their sins. [fn]

For I have told you these, and sorrow hath come and filled your hearts.

But I the truth say to you, That it is needful for you that I go; for if I go not, the Paraclete cometh not to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

but when the Spirit of Truth hath come, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of himself; [fn] but all that he shall hear he will speak, and the things to come [fn] will he make known to you.

A woman, when she travaileth, hath sorrow, that the day hath come for her giving birth; but when she hath borne a son, she remembereth not her anguish, for joy that a child of man hath been born into the world.

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

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

And for them I pray; not for the world I pray, but for them whom thou hast given me, because they are thine.