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Nevertheless many, even of the rulers, believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, so that they would not be excommunicated from the synagogue;

Now Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in Me, does not believe only in Me, but also in Him who sent Me.

"If anyone hears My teachings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

"For I did not speak on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing, you do not realize right now, but you will understand later."

Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!"

Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet; otherwise he is completely clean. And you are clean—but not all of you."

"I am not speaking about all of you. I know the ones whom I have chosen; but this is happening so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'

Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later."

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works.

the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.

"After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; because I live, you also will live.

"The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.

"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.

but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let's go from here.

"Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

"If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

"But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.