The Complete Sayings of Jesus
"I Am the True Vine" — Relationship in Love — "When the Comforter is Come" — "Greater Love Hath No Man
than This...."
A.D. 30. Age 33 Jerusalem: Upper Room.
John 15, 1-27; 16, 1.
I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he
taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I
am the vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and
is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide
in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my
Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so
have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy
might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, that ye love one
another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the
servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard
of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you,
that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye
shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one
another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the
world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater
than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they
will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not
him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak
for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none
other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But
this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me
without a cause. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even
the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear
witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye
should not be offended.1
Footnotes:
1...be offended: fall away, or falter.