John 15;18&19 18.  “If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.19.  If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Question: When does...

John 15;16&17 16.  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.17.  This I command you, to love one...

John 15;14&15 14.  You are my friends if you do what I command you.15.  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...

John 15;12&13 12.  “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.13.  Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Love and death go together.   We are given physical life so that we may have a means by...

John 15;11 11.  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. Jesus teaches us exactly what we are not to rejoice in and what we are to rejoice in: “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the (unclean) spirits are subject to...

John 15;8-10 8.  By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.9.  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, abide in my love.10.  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have...

John 15; 7 7.  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. Which is it?  Is it Christ who abides in us? (v. 5) Or, is it the words of Christ which abides in us? (v. 7) The answer...

John 15;5&6 5.  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.6.  If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and...

John 15;3&4 3.  You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.4.  Abide in me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. The Word spoken to the disciples...

John 15;1&2 1.  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.2.  Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it my bear more fruit. For our Lord, it is all about the ‘fruit’.  Fruit equals life. The...

John 14;28-31 28.  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.29.  And now I have told you before it takes place, so that...

John 14;25-27 25.  “These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you.26.  But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.27.  Peace I leave with...

John 14;21-24 21.  He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will manifest myself to him.”22.  Judas, (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to...

John 14;18-20 18.  “I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.19.  Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also.20.  In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you...

John 14;16&17 16.  And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you forever,17.  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...

John 14;15 15.  “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Love is the key to faithful obedience.  Living by faith, faith in our baptismal death, faith as the workmanship of God, faith as the born anew believer with the mind of Christ, is how we love Jesus.Living by faith is to deny self, take up our...

John 14;13&14 13.  Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;14.  If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. What does having the ‘Mind of Christ’ mean?   Scripture teaches, “For what person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit...

John 14;12 12.  “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father. We can not separate greatness from works.  Jesus himself (in the previous verse 11) linked believing in...

John 14;7-11 7.  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.”8. Phillip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”9.  Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you...

John 14;4-6 4.  And you know the way where I am going.”5.  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”6.  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father,...

John 14;1-3 1.  “Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.2.  In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?3.  And when I go and prepare a place for...

John 13;36-38 36.  Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”  Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow afterward.”37.  Peter said to him, “Lord, why cannot I follow you now?  I will lay down my life for you.”38.  Jesus answered, “Will...

John 13;34&35 34.  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.35.  By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” We must hear and see Jesus in his mysterious participation in the Trinity again here.  Commandments were given to the...

John 13;31-33 31.  When he (Judas Iscariot) had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and in him God is glorified;32.  if God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.33.  Little children, yet a little while I am with...

John 13;21-30 21.  When Jesus had thus spoken, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, one of you will betray me.”22.  The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.23.  One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus;24.  so Simon...

John 13;18-20 18.  I am not speaking to you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’19.  I tell you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you...

John 13;12-17 12.  When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?13.  You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.14.  If I then, your Lord and Teacher,...

John 13;6-11 6.  He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”7.  Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.”8.  Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.”  Jesus answered him, “If I...

John 13;1-5 1.  Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.2.  And during supper, when the devil had already put...

John 12;47-50 47.  If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.48. He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have...

John 12;44-46 44.  And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.45.  And he who sees me sees him who sent me.46.  I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in...