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reading plan entry for November 8

John 15 ()

[1] “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. [2] Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. [3] You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. [4] Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. [5] I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. [6] If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. [7] If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

[8] “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. [9] Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. [10] If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. [11] I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

[12] “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. [13] Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. [14] You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. [15] No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. [16] You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

[17] “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. [18] If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. [19] If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. [20] Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. [21] But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. [22] If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. [23] He who hates me, hates my Father also. [24] If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. [25] But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

[26] “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. [27] You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

John 15:20 John 13:16
John 15:25 Psalm 35:19; 69:4
John 15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.

John 16 ()

[1] “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. [2] They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. [3] They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me. [4] But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. [5] But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ [6] But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. [7] Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. [8] When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; [9] about sin, because they don’t believe in me; [10] about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; [11] about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

[12] “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. [13] However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. [14] He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you. [15] All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.

[16] “A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

[17] Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?” [18] They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”

[19] Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? [20] Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. [21] A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. [22] Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

[23] “In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. [24] Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

[25] “I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. [26] In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, [27] for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. [28] I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

[29] His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. [30] Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

[31] Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? [32] Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. [33] I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

John 16:3 TR adds “to you”
John 16:15 TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”

John 17 ()

[1] Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; [2] even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. [3] This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. [4] I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. [5] Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

[6] “I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. [7] Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, [8] for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. [9] I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. [10] All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. [11] I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. [12] While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. [13] But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. [14] I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. [15] I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. [16] They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. [17] Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. [18] As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. [19] For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

[20] “Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, [21] that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. [22] The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one, [23] I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. [24] Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. [25] Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. [26] I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

John 17:17 Psalm 119:142