John 10 - 15

10:1 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, the one who is not entering through the door into the sheep fold, but ascending up another way, he is a thief by stealth and a robber by violence. 2 The one entering in through the door, however, is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all who are his own, he goes before them and the sheep follow him, because they perceive his voice. 5 They will not follow a stranger, however, but will flee away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers. 6 Jesus spoke this allegory to them, but they did not know what He was saying.

7 Therefore Jesus said to them again, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, I am the Door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves by stealth and robbers by violence; but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the Door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be safe; he will go in and out and will find pasture and increase. 10 The stealthy thief does not come except that he might steal and might kill and might destroy. I came that they might possess life and possess it abundantly, excessively – and beyond all expectation.

11 I am the good [beautiful and appealing] Shepherd. The good shepherd sets forth his soul for the sake of the sheep. 12 The hired servant, however, not being the shepherd and to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees—and the wolf seizes and scatters them— 13 because he is a hired servant and is not concerned about the sheep. 14 I am the good Shepherd; I know My own, and I am known by Mine. 15 As the Father knows Me, I also know the Father, and I set forth my soul for the sheep. {the phrase, tithemi psuche, “set-forth soul,” includes the physical death of Jesus, but means far more besides.} 16 I also have other sheep which are not of this fold; it is necessary for me to bring those also; they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock with one Shepherd.

17 Through this, the Father loves Me, because I set forth my soul, that I might actively take it back again. 18 No one removes it from Me, but I set it forth of Myself. I have the authority to set if forth, and I have the authority to actively take it back again. This full completion I received from My Father.

19 There was division again among the Judeans on account of these words. 20 Many of them were now saying, “He has a demon and is raving mad; why do you listen to Him?” 21 Others were saying, “These words are not those of one who possesses a demon. No demon is able to open the eyes of the blind.”

22 This took place during the Dedication in Jerusalem; It was winter. 23 And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 There the Judeans encircled Him, and said to Him, “How long will You hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us boldly and plainly. 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of My Father, these bear witness concerning Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not out from among My sheep. 27 My sheep hear My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them age-unfolding life as well, and they shall never perish into the age, and never will anyone seize them out of My hand. 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.

31 The Judeans then took up stones to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from the Father; for which of these works do you stone Me?” 33 The Judeans answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for slander [switching right with wrong], and because You, being a HUMAN, make yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said you are gods?” 35 If [David] called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and if the Scripture is not able to be made of no effect, 36  how do you say of Him whom the Father devoted [for Himself] and sent into the world, ‘You slander [switching right with wrong],’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me. 38 If, I do those works, however, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and may come to know that the Father is inside of Me, and I am inside of the Father.” 39 Then they sought to seize Him again, but He went forth out from their hand.

40 And He departed again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at first baptizing, and He remained there. 41 Many came to Him and were saying, “Indeed, John did no sign, yet everything that John said about this man is true.” 42 And many believed into Him there.


11:1 Now, there was a certain man ailing, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha, her sister. 2 This was the Mary who had anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 For that reason, the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” 4 Upon hearing this, Jesus said, “This sickness is not towards death, but for the sake of the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified through it.”

5 Now, Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When He heard that he was sick, still, He remained in the place in which He was two days. 7 Then, after [the two days] He said to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to Him, “Master, just now the Judeans were trying to stone You, and you are going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 If anyone walks in the night, however, he stumbles, because the light is not inside of him.”

11 After saying that, He then said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go that I might awaken him.” 12 His disciples then said, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get well.” 13 Jesus, however, had spoken of his death, but they thought that He spoke of the rest of sleep.

14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you might believe. But let us go to him.” 16 Thomas, called Didymus, then said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”

17 Having then come, Jesus found [that Lazarus] had been four days already in the tomb. 18 This was in Bethany, near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away [just under two miles]. 19 Now, many of the Judeans had come to Martha and Mary that they might comfort them concerning their brother.

20 Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus had arrived, went to meet Him, though Mary remained sitting in the house. 21 Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 Nonetheless, I know that even now whatever You might ask God, God will give You.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing into Me, even if he should die, he will live; 26 and everyone living and believing into Me, never shall die into the age. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the One coming into the world-cosmos.”

28 And having said these things, she went away and called Mary her sister, privately, to whom she said, “The Teacher is come, and He calls for you.” 29 When Mary heard that, she rose up quickly and went towards Him. 30 Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. 31 Also, the Judeans who had been with Mary in the house comforting her, upon seeing that Mary quickly rose up and went out, followed her, having supposed she was going to the tomb that she might weep there. 32 Then Mary, when she came to where Jesus was, and seeing Him, fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 Jesus, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Judeans who came with her also weeping, He was moved with anger in Spirit and agitated. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 The Judeans then said, “Behold, how He loved him!” 37 Some of them, however, said, “This Man who opened the eyes of the blind, was He not able also to have caused that [Lazarus] should not have died?”

38  Again, Jesus, being deeply angry and indignant inside Himself, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” The sister of the dead man, Martha, said to Him, “Lord, he already stinks, for it is four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41 Then after they took away the stone, Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I am aware that You always hear Me; but on account of this crowd all around I said it, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 And having said these things, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The one who had been dead came out, his feet and hands still bound with linen strips and a headcloth still bound about his face. Jesus said to them, “Release him and allow him to go.”

45 Many of the Judeans, therefore, who came with Mary, and who saw what He did, believed into Him. 46 Others of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 The chief priests and the Pharisees then gathered a council where they said, “What are we to do? For this man does many signs. 48 If we should let Him alone like this, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and will take us away, both our place and the nation.”

49 A certain one of them, however, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You  do not know anything, 50 nor do you consider that it is profitable for us that one man should die for the sake of the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 This he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation {This word “nation” is ethnos, which is typically translated “Gentiles” but which I typically translate as “people.”}, 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God who have been scattered, He might gather together into one.

53 From that day, then, they determined together that they would kill Him. 54 For that reason, Jesus no longer walked openly [parrhesia – the boldness of public speaking] among the Judeans, but went away from there into the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. And there He stayed with the disciples. 55 Now, it was near the Passover of the Judeans and many went up to Jerusalem out of that region before the Passover so that they might purify themselves. 56 There they sought for Jesus and were saying to one another inside the temple, “What does it seem to you, that He will not come to the feast?” 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone should know where He was, he must report it, so that they might arrest Him.

12:1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised out from the dead. 2 There He had supper, with Martha serving and Lazarus as one of those reclining with Him. 3 In that moment, Mary took a litra [about twelve ounces] of aromatic oil of pure and costly spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

4 In response, Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, the one who was about to betray Him, said, 5 “Why was this aromatic oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, however, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money bag, he used to pilfer what was put into it. 7 Jesus then said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial. 8 The poor you always have with you; Me, however, you will not always have.”

9 Now, a great crowd of the Judeans knew where He was, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised out from the dead. 11 As a result, the chief priests determined to kill Lazarus as well, 11 because many of the Judeans were going away because of him and were believing into Jesus.

12 On the next day, the great crowd that had come to the feast, heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem. 13 They took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting: “You save us now! Blessed is the One coming inside the name of the Lord. And the King of Israel!” (Psalm 118:25-26). 14 Then Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat upon it, as it is written: 15 “Do not fear, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on the colt of a donkey” (Isaiah 9:9 & Zechariah 4:9). 16 The disciples did not know these things of Him at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

17 The people who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him out from the dead continued to bear witness. 18 Because of this testimony the crowd met Him, for they had heard that He had done this sign. 19 In response, the Pharisees said among themselves, “You see that we gain nothing. Look and see, the world has gone after Him.”

20 Now there were certain Greeks among those coming up to worship in the feast. 21 They came to Philip who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we desire to see and experience Jesus.” 22 Philip went to tell Andrew; and Philip and Andrew came to tell Jesus. 23 Jesus answered them saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, if a grain of wheat planted into the ground should not die {in this case the appearance of death}, it remains alone. If it should die, however {in this case, become something entirely different – the plant}, it bears much fruit {many more seeds just like itself}. 25 The one who loves more his soul, his own story of self, loses it, and the one who loves less his soul, his story of self inside this world, will keep and protect it into age-unfolding life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him accompany Me; and where I am, there also My servant will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will value and honor him.

27 Now my soul is agitated, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me out from this hour?’ But this is the reason why I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd standing nearby heard this, but said, “It thundered.” Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.” 30 Jesus answered, “This voice did not come for Me, but for you. 31 Now is the judgment of this world-cosmos; now the prince of this world-cosmos will be banished. 32 And If I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to Myself.” 33 Now, He said this to signify by what death He was about to die.

34 The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains into the age. How can you say that it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?” 35 Then Jesus said to them, “Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness might not seize hold of you. For the one who walks inside the darkness does not perceive where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe into the light, so that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, after which He went away and was hidden from them.

37 So many signs were done by Him before them, yet they did not believe into Him. 38 And so the word of Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled that said: “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm [or strength] of the Lord been revealed?” (Isaiah 53:1). 39 Even through all this, they were not able to believe, for again Isaiah said: 40 “He has blinded their eyes and has hardened their heart, so that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn, so that I would heal them” (Isaiah 6:9-10). 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke concerning Him. 42 Nevertheless, many, even among the rulers, believed into Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not speak the same word, that they might not be put out of the synagogue. 43 For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

44 Jesus then cried out, “The one who believes into Me, does not believe into Me, but into the One who sent Me; 45 the one who experiences and partakes of Me, experiences and partakes of the One who sent Me. 46 I have come as a light into the world-cosmos so that everyone who believes into Me should not remain inside of the darkness. 47 If anyone hears My words and keeps, guards, and watches over them, I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world-cosmos, but that I might save the world-cosmos. 48 The one who ignores Me and does not seize hold of My words does have one that judges him. The word which I spoke will judge him inside of the last day. 49 For I have not spoken out from Myself, but the Father Himself who sent Me, He gave Me the end completion, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I perceive that His end result brought to completion is age-unfolding life. What I speak then, as the Father has spoken to Me, so I speak.

13:1 Now, before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come, that He would depart [change His abode] out from this world-cosmos {out of physical appearance} towards the Father, having loved His own who were inside the world-cosmos, He loved them into full completion.

2 After supper, [knowing that] the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon of Iscariot, to betray Him, 3 [and] knowing that the Father had given all into His hands, that He comes forth from God and goes towards God, 4 Jesus arose from supper and set aside his garments. Then, taking a towel, he wrapped Himself with it. 5 After that, He poured water into the basin, and He began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel He had wrapped around Himself.

6 He came next to Simon Peter, who said to Him, “Lord, You wash my feet?” 7 Jesus said to him, “What I do you do not consider at present, but you will know later on.” 8 Peter said to Him, “No! You will not wash my feet even into the age.” Jesus answered Him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part shared with Me.” 9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed has no such need except to wash the feet, but is wholly and entirely CLEAN. And you all are clean, except not all.” 11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him. For this reason, He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

12 After He had washed their feet and taken back His garments, and, having reclined again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you say rightly, for I am. 14 If therefore I have washed your feet as your Lord and Teacher, you also are committed to wash one another’s feet.” {You also are committed to see one another as clean in their walk.} 15 For I am giving you a pattern, that just as I do to you, so you also should do. 16 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you. A servant is not greater than his master, nor an apostle or messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

18 I do not speak about all of you. I am aware of each whom I have selected, but that the Scripture may be fulfilled: ‘The one eating bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me’ (Psalm 41:9). 19 From this moment, I am telling you before it happens, so that you should believe that I am when it happens. 20 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, the one who receives anyone whom I shall send receives Me; and the one who receives Me receives the One who sent Me. {In each case, the word “receive,” lambano, could also be “seize hold of.”}

21 Having said these things, Jesus was agitated in spirit, and He testified, “Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom He was speaking. 24 One of His disciples was reclining in Jesus’ bosom [the word denotes intimate union], whom Jesus loved. 24 Simon Peter motioned to him, then, and he told him to ask who it was about whom Jesus was speaking. 25 Having leaned, then, upon the breast of Jesus, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

26 Jesus answered, “He it is to whom I will dip the morsel and will give to him.” Having dipped the morsel, He gave it to Judas, the son of Simon of Iscariot.  27 After [he received] the morsel, then, Satan entered into him. Therefore, Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” 28 Now, none of those reclining [at table] was aware of what He meant. 29 For some were thinking that, since Judas had the money bag, Jesus had told him to buy the things needed for the feast or to give something to the poor. 30 After receiving the morsel, Judas went out immediately. It was now night.

31 Then, after Judas had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified inside of Him. 32 And if God is glorified inside of Him, God will also glorify Him inside of Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me; and, as I said to the Judeans, that where I go you are not able to come, so I also say now to you. 34 A new commandment [that is, full completion] I give to you, that you should love one another; just as I have loved you, so you also are committed to love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you possess love inside of one another.”

36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where do You go?” Jesus answered him, “Where I go, you are not able to accompany or travel with Me now; you will travel with Me later, however.” 37 Peter said to Him, “Lord, why am I not able to accompany you presently? I will set forth my soul for your sake.” 38 Jesus answered, “Will you set forth your soul for Me? Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, the rooster will not crow before you have denied and repudiated Me three times.”

14:1 Do not let your heart be agitated; you believe into God, believe also into Me. 2  There are many rooms in which to dwell inside My Father’s house; if not, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go to prepare a place for you [inside of the Father], then I am already coming and will receive you towards Myself, that where I AM, you also might be. 4 And you know the way I am being led.

5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are being led; how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus replied, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes towards the Father except through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would have known the Father also; from this present moment on you know Him and have seen Him.”

8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show, demonstrate, make known to us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus replied, “I have been so long a time with you, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me, has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show and make known to us the Father?’ 10 Do you not believe that I am inside of the Father and the Father is inside of Me? The words that I speak to you, I do not speak from Myself, but the Father dwelling inside of Me does His works. 11 Believe Me that I am inside of the Father and the Father inside of Me; at least believe because of the works themselves.”

12 Let it be so, it is so, as I say to you, the one who believes into Me, the works that I do, he also will do, and greater than these he will do, because I am always going towards the Father. 13 And whatever you ask inside of My name, I will do, that the Father might be glorified inside of the Son. 14 If you ask Me anything inside of My name, I will do it.

15 If you love me, you will keep, guard and watch over My full completion [of word], 16 and I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper-Advocate, that He might be with you into the age, 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world-cosmos is not able to receive because it does not see or know Him. But you know Him, for He abides, lives, dwells alongside of you and will be inside of you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans desolate and bereaved; I am always coming towards you.

19 Yet a little while and the world-cosmos sees me no more. You see Me, however; because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am inside of My Father, and you inside of Me and I inside of you.

21 The one who possesses My full completion [of words] and keeps guard over them, He is the one who loves Me. Even more, the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father; And I will love him and will appear in person and make Myself visible to him. 22 Judas, not the Iscariot, said to Him, “Lord, how does it happen that you are about to make Yourself visible to us and not to the world-cosmos? 23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep, guard, and watch over My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and will make Our home in intimate closeness with him. 29 The one who does not love Me, does not keep My words. And the word that you hear is not Mine, but it belongs to the Father who sent Me.

25 These things I have said to you as I have remained with you, 26 but the Helper-Advocate, the Devoted Spirit, whom the Father will send inside of My name, He will teach you all, and will bring into your mind all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be agitated, nor let it be fearful or timid. 28 You heard Me say to you that I am continuously going away and continuously coming towards you. If you love Me, you would rejoice that I am going towards the Father, for the Father is larger and greater than I am.

29 And now I have told you before it happens, that when it happens, you might believe. 30 I will no longer speak much with you; indeed, the ruler of this world-cosmos comes, yet he possesses nothing inside of Me. 31 But that the world-cosmos might know that I love the Father, and as the Father gives Me word to complete, so I do. Rise up, let us go from here.”

15:1 I am the true grapevine, and My Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch inside of Me that does not bear fruit He removes; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, so that it might bear more fruit. 3 You are already made pure and just through the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Dwell inside of Me, and I inside of you. Just as the branch is not capable of bearing fruit of itself, except it be attached to the vine, neither can you, if you do not dwell inside of Me.

5 I am the grapevine; you are the branches. The one who dwells inside of Me and I inside of Him bears much fruit; for apart from Me, you are not capable of doing anything. 6 If anyone does not dwell inside of Me, he is dropped as a branch, and is dried up, and they gather the branches and cast them into the fire to be burned. 7 If you dwell inside of Me, and My words live and dwell inside of you, then ask whatever you desire, and it will become for you. 8 In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit, and so you will be My disciples.

9 Just as the Father has loved Me, so I also have loved you; dwell inside of My love. 10 If you keep My word to full completion, you will dwell inside of My love, just as I have kept My Father’s word to full completion and dwell inside of His love. 11 I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might be inside of you, and that your joy might be filled full and complete.

12 This is My full completion, that you love one another in full reciprocity just exactly as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, that he should set forth his soul for the sake of his friends. 14 You are My friends, if you do what I speak into you {love one another and believe into Me}. 15 I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. But you I have called beloved friends, for all that I have heard in the presence of My Father, I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you for Myself, and I set you forth and established you, that you should be led forward; that you should bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain so that whatever you might ask the Father inside of My name, He would give it to you. 17 These things I speak into you that you might love one another in full reciprocity.

18 If the world-cosmos hates and denounces you, you know that it has hated and denounced Me before you. 19 If you were out from the world-cosmos, the world-cosmos would cherish you as its own, but the world hates you because you are not out from the world, but I chose you for Myself out of the world. 20 Remember the word I spoke to you, that a servant is not greater than his master. If they hunted Me down, they will also hunt you down; if they have kept My word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do against you on account of My name, because they have not known the One who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have held onto sin and disconnection from God, now, however, they do not have an excuse for their disconnection. 23 The one who hates Me also hates My Father. 24 If I had not done works among them that no other has done, they would not have held onto sin and disconnection from God. Now, however, they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father, 25 so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me freely and without purpose.’

26 But when the Helper-Advocate comes, whom I will send you in the presence of the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes forth and is spread abroad in the presence of the Father, He will bear witness concerning Me. 27 You also bear witness, because you are with Me from the beginning and origin.