Hi, I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining me again today
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to read the word of God.
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We're reading from the
gospel of John some of the most
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beautiful teachings that
Jesus gave to his disciples
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just before He was
to be glorified through
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his crucifixion.
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And those words are for
us today as His disciples.
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But before we start to read,
let's go and ask for Him to be
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with us.
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Dear Jesus, thank You
that You came to earth for us.
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Thank You that You died for us.
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Thank You for these words
that You told Your dear friends,
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and we want to be
Your dear friends, too.
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May we hear these words as
though You are speaking them
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straight into our hearts, and
then may they bear fruit in our
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lives to Your glory.
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We love You so much!
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Amen.
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Again, I'm reading from the
gospel of John in the King James
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Version, chapter 15,
and starting with verse 1.
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I am the true vine, and
my Father is the husbandman.
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Every branch in me that beareth
not fruit he taketh away:
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and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it,
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that it may
bring forth more fruit.
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Now ye are clean
through the word which I have
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spoken unto you.
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Abide in me, and I in you.
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As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself, except it abide in
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in the vine; no more can
ye, except ye abide in me.
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I am the vine, ye are the
branches: He that abideth in
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me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit;
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for without me
ye can do nothing.
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If a man abide not in me,
he is cast forth as a branch,
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and is withered; and men gather
them, and cast them into the
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fire, and they are burned.
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If ye abide in me, and my words
abide in you, ye shall ask what
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ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
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Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit;
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so shall ye be my disciples.
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As the Father hath
loved me, so have I loved you:
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continue ye in my love.
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If ye keep my commandments,
ye shall abide in my love;
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even as I have kept
my Father's commandments,
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and abide in his love.
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These things have I spoken unto
you, that my joy might remain
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in you, and that
your joy might be full.
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This is my commandment,
That ye love one another,
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as I have loved you.
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Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his
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life for his friends.
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Ye are my friends, if ye
do whatsoever I command you.
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Henceforth I call you
not servants; for the servant
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knoweth not what his lord doeth:
but I have called you friends;
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for all things that I have
heard of my Father I have made
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known unto you.
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Ye have not chosen
me, but I have chosen you,
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and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit,
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and that your fruit
should remain; that whatsoever
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ye shall ask of the Father
in my name, he may give it you.
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These things I command
you, that ye love one another.
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If the world hate you, ye
know that it hated me before
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it hated you.
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If ye were of the world,
the world would love his own;
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but because ye are not of
the world, but I have chosen you
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out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
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Remember the word that I said
unto you, The servant is not
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greater than his lord.
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If they have persecuted me,
they will also persecute you;
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if they have kept my saying,
they will keep yours also.
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But all these things will they
do unto you for my name's sake,
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because they know
not him that sent me.
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If I had not come and spoken
unto them, they had not had sin;
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but now they have
no cloak for their sin.
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He that hateth me
hateth my Father also.
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If I had not done among them the
works which none other man did,
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they had not had sin: but now
have they both seen and hated
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both me and my Father.
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But this cometh to pass,
that the word might be fulfilled
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that is written in their law,
They hated me without a cause.
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But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from
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the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the
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Father, he shall testify of me:
and ye also shall bear witness,
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because ye have been
with me from the beginning.
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I'm reading in the
gospel of John, chapter 16.
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These things have I
spoken unto you, that ye should
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not be offended.
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They shall put you out
of the synagogues: yea,
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the time cometh, that whosoever
killeth you will think that he
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doeth God service.
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And these things will they do
unto you, because they have not
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known the Father, nor me.
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But these things have I told
you, that when the time shall
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come, ye may remember
that I told you of them.
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And these things I said
not unto you at the beginning,
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because I was with you.
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But now I go my way to him that
sent me; and none of you asketh
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me, Whither goest thou?
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But because I have said these
things unto you, sorrow hath
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filled your heart.
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Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you
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that I go away: for if I go
not away, the Comforter will not
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come unto you; but if I depart,
I will send him unto you.
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And when he is come, he
will reprove the world of sin,
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and of
righteousness, and of judgment:
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of sin, because they believe
not on me; of righteousness,
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because I go to my
Father, and ye see me no more;
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of judgment, because the
prince of this world is judged.
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I have yet many things to
say unto you, but ye cannot
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bear them now.
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Howbeit when he, the Spirit
of truth, is come, he will guide
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you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself;
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but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak:
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and he will show
you things to come.
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He shall glorify me: for he
shall receive of mine, and shall
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show it unto you.
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All things that the Father
hath are mine: therefore said I,
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that he shall take of mine,
and shall show it unto you.
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A little while, and ye
shall not see me: and again,
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a little while, and ye shall see
me, because I go to the Father.
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Then said some of his disciples
among themselves, What is this
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that he saith unto us, A little
while, and ye shall not see me:
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and again, a little
while, and ye shall see me: and,
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Because I go to the Father?
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They said therefore,
What is this that he saith,
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A little while? we
cannot tell what he saith.
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Now Jesus knew that they
were desirous to ask him,
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and said unto them, Do
ye inquire among yourselves
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of that I said, A little
while, and ye shall not see me:
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and again, a little
while, and ye shall see me?
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Verily, verily, I say unto you,
That ye shall weep and lament,
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but the world shall rejoice;
and ye shall be sorrowful,
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but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy.
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A woman when she is in travail
hath sorrow, because her hour is
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come: but as soon as she
is delivered of the child,
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she remembereth no more the
anguish, for joy that a man is
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born into the world.
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And ye now therefore have
sorrow: but I will see you
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again, and your heart shall
rejoice, and your joy no man
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taketh from you.
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And in that day ye
shall ask me nothing.
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Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the
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Father in my name,
he will give it you.
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Hitherto have ye asked nothing
in my name: ask, and ye shall
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receive, that
your joy may be full.
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These things have I spoken unto
you in proverbs: but the time
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cometh, when I shall no
more speak unto you in proverbs,
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but I shall show you
plainly of the Father.
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At that day ye shall ask in
my name: and I say not unto you,
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that I will pray the Father
for you: for the Father himself
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loveth you, because ye
have loved me, and have believed
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that I came out from God.
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I came forth from the Father,
and am come into the world:
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again, I leave the
world, and go to the Father.
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His disciples said unto him,
Lo, now speakest thou plainly,
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and speakest no proverb.
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Now are we sure that
thou knowest all things,
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and needest not that any
man should ask thee: by this we
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believe that thou
camest forth from God.
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Jesus answered
them, Do ye now believe?
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Behold, the hour cometh, yea,
is now come, that ye shall be
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scattered, every man to his
own, and shall leave me alone:
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and yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me.
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These things I have
spoken unto you, that in me ye
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might have peace.
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In the world ye shall have
tribulation: but be of good
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cheer, I have
overcome the world.
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We're reading together from
the gospel of John, chapter 17.
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These words spake Jesus, and
lifted up his eyes to heaven,
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and said, Father, the
hour is come; glorify thy Son,
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that thy Son also may glorify
thee: as thou hast given him
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power over all flesh, that
he should give eternal life to
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as many as thou hast given him.
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And this is life eternal, that
they might know thee the only
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true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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I have glorified thee on the
earth: I have finished the work
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which thou gavest me to do.
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And now, O Father, glorify
thou me with thine own self
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with the glory which I had
with thee before the world was.
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I have manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me
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out of the world: thine they
were, and thou gavest them me;
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and they have kept thy word.
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Now they have known that
all things whatsoever thou hast
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given me are of thee.
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For I have given unto them
the words which thou gavest me;
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and they have received them,
and have known surely that I
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came out from thee, and
they have believed that thou
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didst send me.
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I pray for them: I pray not for
the world, but for them which
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thou hast given
me; for they are thine.
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And all mine are thine,
and thine are mine; and I am
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glorified in them.
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And now I am no more in
the world, but these are in the
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world, and I come to thee.
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Holy Father, keep through thine
own name those whom thou hast
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given me, that they
may be one, as we are.
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While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name:
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those that thou gavest me I have
kept, and none of them is lost,
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but the son of perdition,
that the scripture might
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be fulfilled.
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And now come I to thee;
and these things I speak in the
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world, that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves.
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I have given them thy word;
and the world hath hated them,
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because they are not of
the world, even as I am not
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of the world.
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I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world,
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but that thou shouldest
keep them from the evil.
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They are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.
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Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth.
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As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent
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them into the world.
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And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be
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sanctified through the truth.
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Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall
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believe on me through their
word; that they all may be one,
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as thou, Father, art in me,
and I in thee, that they also
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may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou
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hast sent me.
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And the glory which thou
gavest me I have given them:
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that they may be
one, even as we are one:
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I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one;
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and that the world may
know that thou hast sent me,
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and hast loved them,
as thou hast loved me.
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Father, I will that they
also, whom thou hast given me,
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be with me where I am;
that they may behold my glory,
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which thou hast given me:
for thou lovest me before the
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foundation of the world.
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O righteous Father, the world
hath not known thee: but I have
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known thee, and these have
known that thou hast sent me.
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And I have declared unto them
thy name, and will declare it:
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that the love wherewith thou
hast loved me may be in them,
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and I in them.
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Beginning with chapter
18 of the gospel of John.
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When Jesus had spoken these
words, he went forth with his
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disciples over the brook
Cedron, where was a garden,
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into the which he
entered, and his disciples.
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And Judas also, which
betrayed him, knew the place:
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for Jesus oft-times resorted
thither with his disciples.
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Judas then, having received
a band of men and officers
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from the chief priests and
Pharisees, cometh thither with
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lanterns and
torches and weapons.
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Jesus therefore, knowing
all things that should come upon
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him, went forth, and
said unto them, Whom seek ye?
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They answered
him, Jesus of Nazareth.
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Jesus answered, I have told you
that I am he: if therefore ye
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