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13:9. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my
hands and my head.
13:10. Jesus saith to him: He that is washed needeth not but to wash his
feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all.
13:11. For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said:
You are not all clean.
13:12. Then after he had washed their feet and taken his garments, being
set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you?
13:13. You call me Master and Lord. And you say well: for so I am.
13:14. If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you
also ought to wash one another's feet.
13:15. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so
you do also.
13:16. Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his
lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.
13:17. If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.
13:18. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the
scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up
his heel against me,
13:19. At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall
come to pass, you may believe that I am he.
13:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send
receiveth me: and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
13:21. When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit; and
he testified, and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you shall
betray me.
13:22. The disciples therefore looked one upon another, doubting of whom
he spoke.
13:23. Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom
Jesus loved.
13:24. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him and said to him: Who is it
of whom he speaketh?
13:25. He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him: Lord,
who is it?
13:26. Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall reach bread dipped. And
when he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon.
13:27. And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to
him: That which thou dost, do quickly.
That which thou dost, do quickly... It is not a license, much less a
command, to go about his treason: but a signification to him that Christ
would not hinder or resist what he was about, do it as soon as he
pleased: but was both ready and desirous to suffer for our redemption.
13:28. Now no man at the table knew to what purpose he said this unto
him.
13:29. For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had
said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival
day: or that he should give something to the poor.
13:30. He therefore, having received the morsel, went out immediately.
And it was night.
13:31. When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of man
glorified; and God is glorified in him.
13:32. If God be glorified in him, God also will glorify him in himself:
and immediately will he glorify him.
13:33. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek
me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to
you now.
13:34. A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as
I have loved you, that you also love one another.
13:35. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have
love one for another.
13:36. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus
answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now: but thou shalt
follow hereafter.
13:37. Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down
my life for thee.
13:38. Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen,
amen, I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice.
John Chapter 14
Christ's discourse after his last supper.
14:1. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also
in me.
14:2. In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have
told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.
14:3. And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.
14:4. And whither I go you know: and the way you know.
14:5. Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And
how can we know the way?
14:6. Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No
man cometh to the Father, but by me.
14:7. If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father
also: and from henceforth you shall know him. And you have seen him.
14:8. Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father; and it is enough
for us.
14:9. Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have
you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How
sayest thou: Shew us the Father?
14:10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me?
The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father
who abideth in me, he doth the works.
14:11. Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?
14:12. Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen, I say to
you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: and
greater than these shall he do.
14:13. Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the
Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in
the Son.
14:14. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do.
14:15. If you love me, keep my commandments.
14:16. And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another
Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever:
Paraclete... That is, a comforter: or also an advocate; inasmuch as by
inspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. For
ever... Hence it is evident that this Spirit of Truth was not only
promised to the persons of the apostles, but also to their successors
through all generations.
14:17. The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall
abide with you and shall be in you.
14:18. I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.
14:19. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see
me: because I live, and you shall live.
14:20. In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in me,
and I in you.
14:21. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that
loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will
love him and will manifest myself to him.
14:22. Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it that thou
wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?
14:23. Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep
my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will
make our abode with him.
14:24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which
you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.
14:25. These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you.
14:26. But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in
my name, he will teach you all things and bring all things to your mind,
whatsoever I shall have said to you.
Teach you all things... Here the Holy Ghost is promised to the apostles
and their successors, particularly, in order to teach them all truth,
and to preserve them from error.
14:27. Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor
let it be afraid.
14:28. You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto
you. If you loved me you would indeed be glad, because I go to the
Father: for the Father is greater than I.
For the Father is greater than I... It is evident, that Christ our Lord
speaks here of himself as he is made man: for as God he is equal to the
Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty of understanding the meaning of
these words will vanish, when the relative circumstances of the text
here are considered: for Christ being at this time shortly to suffer
death, signified to his apostles his human nature by these very words:
for as God he could not die. And therefore as he was both God and man,
it must follow that according to his humanity he was to die, which the
apostles were soon to see and believe, as he expresses, ver. 29. And now
I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass,
you may believe.
14:29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it
shall come to pass, you may believe.
14:30. I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this
world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.
14:31. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the
Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.
John Chapter 15
A continuation of Christ's discourse to his disciples.
15:1. I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.
15:2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and
every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth
more fruit.
15:3. Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to
you.
15:4. Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you
abide in me.
15:5. I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
15:6. If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and
shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire:
and he burneth.
15:7. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask
whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you.
15:8. In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much
fruit and become my disciples.
15:9. As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my
love.
15:10. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I
also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.
15:11. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and
your joy may be filled.
15:12. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have
loved you.
15:13. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.
15:14. You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.
15:15. I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not
what his lord doth. But I have called you friends because all things,
whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.
15:16. You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed
you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit
should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it you.
15:17. These things I command you, that you love one another.
15:18. If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.
15:19. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but
because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you.
15:20. Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater
than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute
you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
15:21. But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake:
because they know not him that sent me.
15:22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin:
but now they have no excuse for their sin.
15:23. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
15:24. If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath
done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated
both me and my Father.
15:25. But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law:
they hated me without cause.
15:26. But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall
give testimony of me.
Whom I will send... This proves, against the modern Greeks, that the
Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Son, as well as from the Father:
otherwise he could not be sent by the Son.
15:27. And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the
beginning.
John Chapter 16
The conclusion of Christ's last discourse to his disciples.
16:1. These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that
you may not be scandalized.
16:2. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.
16:3. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known
the Father nor me.
16:4. But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come,
you may remember that I told you of them.
16:5. But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was
with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me:
Whither goest thou?
16:6. But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled
your heart.
16:7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For
if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will
send him to you.
16:8. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin and of
justice and of judgment.
He will convince the world of sin, etc... The Holy Ghost, by his coming
brought over many thousands, first, to a sense of their sin in not
believing in Christ. Secondly, to a conviction of the justice of Christ,
now sitting at the right hand of his Father. And thirdly, to a right
apprehension of the judgment prepared for them that choose to follow
Satan, who is already judged and condemned.
16:9. Of sin: because they believed not in me.
16:10. And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me
no longer.
16:11. And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already
judged.
16:12. I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them
now.
16:13. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all
truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he
shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall
shew you.
Will teach you all truth... See the annotation on chap. 14. ver. 26.
16:14. He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall
shew it to you.
16:15. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said
that he shall receive of me and shew it to you.
16:16. A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little
while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.
16:17. Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that
he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a
little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father?
16:18. They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while?
We know not what he speaketh.
16:19. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to
them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little
while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall
see me?
16:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the
world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy.
16:21. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is
come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more
the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
16:22. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and
your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.
16:23. And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say
to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.
16:24. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you
shall receive; that your joy may be full.
16:25. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh
when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you
plainly of the Father.
16:26. In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that
I will ask the Father for you.
16:27. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and
have believed that I came out from God.
16:28. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I
leave the world and I go to the Father.
16:29. His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and
speakest no proverb.
16:30. Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not
that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth
from God.
16:31. Jesus answered them: Do you now believe?
16:32. Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be
scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am
not alone, because the Father is with me.
16:33. These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have
overcome the world.
John Chapter 17
Christ's prayer for his disciples.
17:1. These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he
said: the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.
17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give
eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.
17:3. Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
17:4. I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do.
17:5. And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory
which I had, before the world was, with thee.
17:6. I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out
of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have
kept thy word.
17:7. Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are
from thee:
17:8. Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And
they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from
thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.
17:9. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou
hast given me: because they are thine.
17:10. And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am
glorified in them.
17:11. And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I
come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given
me: that they may be one, as we also are.
17:12. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou
gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of
perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.
17:13. And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world,
that they may have my joy filled in themselves.
17:14. I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them:
because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
17:15. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
17:16. They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
17:17. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.
17:18. As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into
the world.
17:19. And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be
sanctified in truth.
17:20. And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through
their word shall believe in me.
17:21. That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee;
that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me.
17:22. And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them:
that, they may be one, as we also are one.
17:23. I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one:
and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as
thou hast also loved me.
17:24. Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me
may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me,
because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.
17:25. Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known
thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.
17:26. And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known:
that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
them.
John Chapter 18
The history of the passion of Christ.
18:1. When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples
over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered
with his disciples.
18:2. And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: because Jesus
had often resorted thither together with his disciples.
18:3. Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants
from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns
and torches and weapons.
18:4. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye?
18:5. They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am
he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.
18:6. As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went
backward and fell to the ground.
18:7. Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said: Jesus
of Nazareth.
18:8. Jesus answered: I have told you that I am he. If therefore you
seek me, let these go their way,
18:9. That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou
hast given me, I have not lost any one.
18:10. Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the servant
of the high priest and cut off his right ear. And the name of thee
servant was Malchus.
18:11. Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the
scabbard. The chalice which my father hath given me, shall I not drink
it?
18:12. Then the band and the tribune and the servants of the Jews took
Jesus and bound him.
18:13. And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to
Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year.
18:14. Now Caiphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews: That it
was expedient that one man should die for the people.
18:15. And Simon Peter followed Jesus: and so did another disciple. And
that disciple was known to the high priest and went in with Jesus into
the court of the high priest.
18:16. But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple
therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the
portress and brought in Peter.
18:17. The maid therefore that was portress saith to Peter: Art not thou
also one of this man's disciple? He saith I am not.
18:18. Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because
it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also,
standing and warming himself.
18:19. The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples and of his
doctrine.
18:20. Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have
always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews
resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.
18:21. Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken
unto them. Behold they know what things I have said.
18:22. And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing
by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?
18:23. Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the
evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?
18:24. And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest.
18:25. And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said
therefore to him: Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it
and said: I am not.
18:26. One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose
ear Peter cut off) saith to him: Did not I see thee in the garden with
him?
18:27. Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.
18:28. Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it
was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be
defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.
18:29. Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation
bring you against this man?
18:30. They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we
would not have delivered him up to thee.
18:31. Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him
according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful
for us to put any man to death.
18:32. That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said,
signifying what death he should die.
18:33. Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and
said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?
18:34. Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others
told it thee of me?
18:35. Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests
have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?
18:36. Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom
were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not
be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.
