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Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you don't come from me, but the Father lives in me and does his own work.

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he lives with you and he will be in you.

In a little while the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live, too.

Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you plan to show yourself to us and not to the rest of the world?"

But the Helper will teach you everything and will cause you to remember all that I told you. This Helper is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going, but I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you should be happy that I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.

but the world must know that I love the Father, so I do exactly what the Father told me to do. "Come now, let us go.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. A branch cannot produce fruit alone but must remain in the vine. In the same way, you cannot produce fruit alone but must remain in me.

"I am the vine, and you are the branches. If any remain in me and I remain in them, they produce much fruit. But without me they can do nothing.

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don't belong to it. That is why the world hates you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

I did works among them that no one else has ever done. If I had not done these works, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen what I have done, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

But this happened so that what is written in their law would be true: ‘They hated me for no reason.'

Now I am going back to the One who sent me. But none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?'

But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go away. When I go away, I will send the Helper to you. If I do not go away, the Helper will not come.

"I have many more things to say to you, but they are too much for you now.

But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all truth. He will not speak his own words, but he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is to come.

I tell you the truth, you will cry and be sad, but the world will be happy. You will be sad, but your sadness will become joy.

When a woman gives birth to a baby, she has pain, because her time has come. But when her baby is born, she forgets the pain, because she is so happy that a child has been born into the world.