rsv John:13-16. SEEK
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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 .
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And during supper ,
when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot ,
Simon '
s son ,
to betray him ,
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Jesus ,
knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands ,
and that he had come from God and was going to God ,
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rose from supper ,
laid aside his garments ,
and girded himself with a towel .
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Then he poured water into a basin ,
and began to wash the disciples '
feet ,
and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded .
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He came to Simon Peter ;
and Peter said to him , "
Lord ,
do you wash my feet ?"
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Jesus answered him , "
What I am doing you do not know now ,
but afterward you will understand ."
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Peter said to him , "
You shall never wash my feet ."
Jesus answered him , "
If I do not wash you ,
you have no part in me ."
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Simon Peter said to him , "
Lord ,
not my feet only but also my hands and my head !"
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Jesus said to him , "
He who has bathed does not need to wash ,
except for his feet ,
but he is clean all over ;
and you are clean ,
but not every one of you ."
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For he knew who was to betray him ;
that was why he said , "
You are not all clean ."
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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 ?
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You call me Teacher and Lord ;
and you are right ,
for so I am .
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If I then ,
your Lord and Teacher ,
have washed your feet ,
you also ought to wash one another '
s feet .
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For I have given you an example ,
that you also should do as I have done to you .
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Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
a servant is not greater than his master ;
nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him .
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If you know these things ,
blessed are you if you do them .
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I am not speaking of 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 .'
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I tell you this now ,
before it takes place ,
that when it does take place you may believe that I am he .
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Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
he who receives any one whom I send receives me ;
and he who receives me receives him who sent me ."
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When Jesus had thus spoken ,
he was troubled in spirit ,
and testified , "
Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
one of you will betray me ."
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The disciples looked at one another ,
uncertain of whom he spoke .
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One of his disciples ,
whom Jesus loved ,
was lying close to the breast of Jesus ;
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so Simon Peter beckoned to him and said , "
Tell us who it is of whom he speaks ."
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So lying thus ,
close to the breast of Jesus ,
he said to him , "
Lord ,
who is it ?"
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Jesus answered , "
It is he to whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped it ."
So when he had dipped the morsel ,
he gave it to Judas ,
the son of Simon Iscariot .
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Then after the morsel ,
Satan entered into him .
Jesus said to him , "
What you are going to do ,
do quickly ."
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Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him .
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Some thought that ,
because Judas had the money box ,
Jesus was telling him , "
Buy what we need for the feast ";
or ,
that he should give something to the poor .
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So ,
after receiving the morsel ,
he immediately went out ;
and it was night .
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When he had gone out ,
Jesus said , "
Now is the Son of man glorified ,
and in him God is glorified ;
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if God is glorified in him ,
God will also glorify him in himself ,
and glorify him at once .
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Little children ,
yet a little while I am with you .
You will seek me ;
and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you , `
Where I am going you cannot come .'
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A new commandment I give to you ,
that you love one another ;
even as I have loved you ,
that you also love one another .
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By this all men will know that you are my disciples ,
if you have love for one another ."
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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 ."
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Peter said to him , "
Lord ,
why cannot I follow you now ?
I will lay down my life for you ."
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Jesus answered , "
Will you lay down your life for me ?
Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
the cock will not crow ,
till you have denied me three times .
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Let not your hearts be troubled ;
believe in God ,
believe also in me .
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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 ?
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And when I go and prepare a place for you ,
I will come again and will take you to myself ,
that where I am you may be also .
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And you know the way where I am going ."
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Thomas said to him , "
Lord ,
we do not know where you are going ;
how can we know the way ?"
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Jesus said to him , "
I am the way ,
and the truth ,
and the life ;
no one comes to the Father ,
but by me .
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If you had known me ,
you would have known my Father also ;
henceforth you know him and have seen him ."
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Philip said to him , "
Lord ,
show us the Father ,
and we shall be satisfied ."
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Jesus said to him , "
Have I been with you so long ,
and yet you do not know me ,
Philip ?
He who has seen me has seen the Father ;
how can you say , `
Show us the Father '?
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Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me ?
The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority ;
but the Father who dwells in me does his works .
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Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me ;
or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves .
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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 .
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Whatever you ask in my name ,
I will do it ,
that the Father may be glorified in the Son ;
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if you ask anything in my name ,
I will do it .
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If you love me ,
you will keep my commandments .
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And I will pray the Father ,
and he will give you another Counselor ,
to be with you for ever ,
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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 you .
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I will not leave you desolate ;
I will come to you .
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Yet a little while ,
and the world will see me no more ,
but you will see me ;
because I live ,
you will live also .
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In that day you will know that I am in my Father ,
and you in me ,
and I in you .
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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 love him and manifest myself to him ."
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Judas (
not Iscariot )
said to him , "
Lord ,
how is it that you will manifest yourself to us ,
and not to the world ?"
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Jesus answered him , "
If a man loves me ,
he will keep my word ,
and my Father will love him ,
and we will come to him and make our home with him .
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He who does not love me does not keep my words ;
and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father '
s who sent me .
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These things I have spoken to you ,
while I am still with you .
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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 .
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Peace I leave with you ;
my peace I give to you ;
not as the world gives do I give to you .
Let not your hearts be troubled ,
neither let them be afraid .
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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 .
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And now I have told you before it takes place ,
so that when it does take place ,
you may believe .
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I will no longer talk much with you ,
for the ruler of this world is coming .
He has no power over me ;
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but I do as the Father has commanded me ,
so that the world may know that I love the Father .
Rise ,
let us go hence .
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I am the true vine ,
and my Father is the vinedresser .
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Every branch of mine that bears no fruit ,
he takes away ,
and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes ,
that it may bear more fruit .
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You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you .
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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 .
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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 .
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If a man does not abide in me ,
he is cast forth as a branch and withers ;
and the branches are gathered ,
thrown into the fire and burned .
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If you abide in me ,
and my words abide in you ,
ask whatever you will ,
and it shall be done for you .
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By this my Father is glorified ,
that you bear much fruit ,
and so prove to be my disciples .
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As the Father has loved me ,
so have I loved you ;
abide in my love .
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If you keep my commandments ,
you will abide in my love ,
just as I have kept my Father '
s commandments and abide in his love .
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These things I have spoken to you ,
that my joy may be in you ,
and that your joy may be full .
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This is my commandment ,
that you love one another as I have loved you .
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Greater love has no man than this ,
that a man lay down his life for his friends .
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You are my friends if you do what I command you .
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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 you .
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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 .
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This I command you ,
to love one another .
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If the world hates you ,
know that it has hated me before it hated you .
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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 .
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Remember the word that I said to you , `
A servant is not greater than his master .'
If they persecuted me ,
they will persecute you ;
if they kept my word ,
they will keep yours also .
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But all this they will do to you on my account ,
because they do not know him who sent me .
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If I had not come and spoken to them ,
they would not have sin ;
but now they have no excuse for their sin .
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He who hates me hates my Father also .
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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did ,
they would not have sin ;
but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father .
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It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law , `
They hated me without a cause .'
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But when the Counselor comes ,
whom I shall send to you from the Father ,
even the Spirit of truth ,
who proceeds from the Father ,
he will bear witness to me ;
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and you also are witnesses ,
because you have been with me from the beginning .
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I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away .
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They will put you out of the synagogues ;
indeed ,
the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God .
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And they will do this because they have not known the Father ,
nor me .
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But I have said these things to you ,
that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them . "
I did not say these things to you from the beginning ,
because I was with you .
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But now I am going to him who sent me ;
yet none of you asks me , `
Where are you going ?'
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But because I have said these things to you ,
sorrow has filled your hearts .
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Nevertheless I tell you the truth :
it is to your advantage that I go away ,
for if I do not go away ,
the Counselor will not come to you ;
but if I go ,
I will send him to you .
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And when he comes ,
he will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment :
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concerning sin ,
because they do not believe in me ;
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concerning righteousness ,
because I go to the Father ,
and you will see me no more ;
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concerning judgment ,
because the ruler of this world is judged .
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I have yet many things to say to you ,
but you cannot bear them now .
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When the Spirit of truth comes ,
he will guide you into all the truth ;
for he will not speak on his own authority ,
but whatever he hears he will speak ,
and he will declare to you the things that are to come .
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He will glorify me ,
for he will take what is mine and declare it to you .
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All that the Father has is mine ;
therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you .
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A little while ,
and you will see me no more ;
again a little while ,
and you will see me ."
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Some of his disciples said to one another , "
What is this that he says to us , `
A little while ,
and you will not see me ,
and again a little while ,
and you will see me ';
and , `
because I go to the Father '?"
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They said , "
What does he mean by `
a little while '?
We do not know what he means ."
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Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him ;
so he said to them , "
Is this what you are asking yourselves ,
what I meant by saying , `
A little while ,
and you will not see me ,
and again a little while ,
and you will see me '?
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Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
you will weep and lament ,
but the world will rejoice ;
you will be sorrowful ,
but your sorrow will turn into joy .
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When a woman is in travail she has sorrow ,
because her hour has come ;
but when she is delivered of the child ,
she no longer remembers the anguish ,
for joy that a child is born into the world .
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So you have sorrow now ,
but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice ,
and no one will take your joy from you .
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In that day you will ask nothing of me .
Truly ,
truly ,
I say to you ,
if you ask anything of the Father ,
he will give it to you in my name .
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Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name ;
ask ,
and you will receive ,
that your joy may be full .
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I have said this to you in figures ;
the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father .
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In that day you will ask in my name ;
and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you ;
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for the Father himself loves you ,
because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father .
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I came from the Father and have come into the world ;
again ,
I am leaving the world and going to the Father ."
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His disciples said , "
Ah ,
now you are speaking plainly ,
not in any figure !
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Now we know that you know all things ,
and need none to question you ;
by this we believe that you came from God ."
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Jesus answered them , "
Do you now believe ?
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The hour is coming ,
indeed it has come ,
when you will be scattered ,
every man to his home ,
and will leave me alone ;
yet I am not alone ,
for the Father is with me .
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I have said this to you ,
that in me you may have peace .
In the world you have tribulation ;
but be of good cheer ,
I have overcome the world ."
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When Jesus had spoken these words ,
he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said , "
Father ,
the hour has come ;
glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee ,