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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the Gospel

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of John, chapters 14 through 16. Chapter 14 Let

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not your heart be troubled. You believe in God,

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believe also in me. In my Father's house are

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many mansions. If it were not so, I would have

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told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and

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if I go, and prepare a place for you, I will

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come again and receive you to myself, that where

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I am, there you may be also. And where I go you

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know, and the way you know. Thomas said to him,

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Lord, we do not know where you are going, and

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how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I

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am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes

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to the Father except through me. If you had known

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me, you would have known my Father also. And

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from now on, you know him and have seen him.

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Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father,

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and it is sufficient for us. Jesus said to him,

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Have I been with you so long, and yet you have

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not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has

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seen the Father. So how can you say, Show us

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the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the

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Father and the Father in me? The words that I

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speak to you I do not speak on my own authority,

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but the Father who dwells in me does the works.

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Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father

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in me, or else believe me for the sake of the

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works themselves. Most assuredly I say to you,

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he who believes in me, the works that I do, he

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will do also, and greater works than these he

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will do, because I go to my Father. And whatever

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you ask in my name, that I will do, that the

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Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask

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anything in my name, I will do it. If you love

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me, Keep my commandments, and I will pray the

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Father, and he will give you another helper,

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that he may abide with you forever. The Spirit

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of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because

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it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know

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him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

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I will not leave you orphans. I will come to

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you. A little while longer, and the world will

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see me no more. But you will see me. Because

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I live, you will live also. At that day you will

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know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and

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I in you. He who has my commandments and keeps

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them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves

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me will be loved by my Father, and I will love

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him and manifest myself to him. Judas, not Iscariot,

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said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest

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yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus answered

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and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will

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keep my word, and my Father will love him, and

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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,

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and the word which you hear is not mine, but

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the Father's who sent me. These things I have

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spoken to you while being present with you, but

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the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father

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will send in my name, he will teach you all things

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and bring to your remembrance all things that

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I said to you. Peace I leave with you, my peace

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I gift you. Not as the world gives do I gift

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you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither

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let it be afraid. You have heard me say to you,

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I am going away and coming back to you. If you

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loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I

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am going to the Father, for my Father is greater

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than I. And now I have told you before it comes,

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that when it does come to pass, you may believe.

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I will no longer talk much with you. for the

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ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing

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in me, but that the world may know that I love

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the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment,

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so I do. Arise, let us go from here. Chapter

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15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

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Every branch in me that does not bear fruit,

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he takes away. And every branch that bears fruit

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he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are

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already clean because of the word which I have

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spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As

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the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless

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it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless

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you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.

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He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much

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fruit. For without me you can do nothing. If

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anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as

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a branch and is withered, and they gather them

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and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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If you abide in me and my words abide in you,

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you will ask what you desire, and it shall be

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done for you. By this my Father is glorified,

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that you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples.

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As the Father loved me, I also have loved you.

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Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments,

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you will abide in my love, just as I have kept

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my father's commandments and abide in his love.

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These things I have spoken to you, that my joy

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may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

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This is my commandment, that you love one another

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as I have loved you. Greater love has no one

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than this, than to lay down one's life for his

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friends. You are my friends if you do whatever

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I command you. No longer do I call you servants.

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For a servant does not know what his master is

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doing, but I have called you friends. For all

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things that I heard from my father I have made

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known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose

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you and appointed you that you should go and

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bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain,

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that whatever you ask the father in my name he

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may give you. These things I command you that

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you love one another. If the world hates you,

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you know that it hated me before it hated you.

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If you were of the world, the world would love

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its own. Yet because you are not of the world,

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but I chose you out of the world, therefore the

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world hates you. Remember the word that I said

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to you, a servant is not greater than his master.

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If they persecuted me, they will also persecute

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you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours

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also. But all these things they will do to you

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for my name's sake, because they do not know

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him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken

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to them, they would have no sin. But now they

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have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me

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hates my father also. If I had not done among

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them the works which no one else did, they would

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have no sin. But now they have seen and also

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hated both me and my father. But this happened

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that the word might be fulfilled which is written

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in their law. They hated me without a cause.

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but when the helper comes whom i shall send to

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you from the father the spirit of truth who proceeds

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from the father he will testify of me and you

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also will bear witness because you have been

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with me from the beginning chapter sixteen these

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things i have spoken to you that you should not

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be made to stumble They will put you out of the

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synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever

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kills you will think that he offers God service.

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And these things they will do to you because

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they have not known the Father nor me. But these

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things I have told you that when the time comes,

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you may remember that I told you of them. And

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these things I did not say to you at the beginning

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because I was with you. But now I go away to

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him who sent me, and none of you asks me. Where

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are you going? But because I have said these

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things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

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Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to

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your advantage that I go away. For if I do not

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go away, the Helper will not come to you. But

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if I depart, I will send him to you. And when

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he has come, he will convict the world of sin,

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and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin,

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because they do not believe in me. Of righteousness,

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because I go to my Father, and you see me no

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more. of judgment, because the ruler of this

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world is judged. I still have many things to

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say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However,

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when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will

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guide you into all truth, for He will not speak

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on His own authority, but whatever He hears,

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He will speak, and He will tell you things to

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come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of

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what is Mine and declare it to you. All things

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that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said

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that he will take of mine and declare it to you,

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a little while and you will not see me, and again

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a little while and you will see me, because I

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go to the Father. Then some of his disciples

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said among themselves, What is this that he says

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to us, a little while and you will not see me,

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and again a little while and you will see me,

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and because I go to the Father? They said therefore,

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What is this that he says, a little while? We

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do not know what he is saying. Now Jesus knew

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that they desired to ask him, and he said to

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them, Are you inquiring among yourselves about

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what I said a little while, and you will not

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see me, and again a little while, and you will

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see me? Most assuredly I say to you that you

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will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice,

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and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will

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be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labor,

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has sorrow because her hour has come. But as

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soon as she has given birth to the child, she

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no longer remembers the anguish for joy that

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a human being has been born into the world. Therefore

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you now have sorrow, but I will see you again,

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and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no

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one will take from you. And in that day you will

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ask me nothing. Most assuredly I say to you,

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whatever you ask the Father, in my name he will

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give you. Until now you have asked nothing in

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my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your

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joy may be full. These things I have spoken to

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you in figurative language, but the time is coming

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when I will no longer speak to you in figurative

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language, but I will tell you plainly about the

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Father. In that day you will ask in my name,

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and I do not say to you that I shall pray the

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Father for you. For the Father himself loves

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you, because you have loved me, and have believed

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that I came forth from God. I came forth from

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the Father and have come into the world. Again,

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I leave the world and go to the Father. His disciples

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said to him, See, now you are speaking plainly

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and using no figure of speech. Now we are sure

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that you know all things and have no need that

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anyone should question you. By this we believe

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that you came forth from God. Jesus answered,

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Do you now believe? Indeed the hour is coming.

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Yes has now come. that you will be scattered

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each to his own, and will leave me alone. And

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yet I am not alone, because the Father is with

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me. These things I have spoken to you, that in

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me you may have peace. In the world you will

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have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have

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overcome the world. I hope you enjoyed today's

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reading as much as I did, and I look forward

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to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our

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journey. God bless you and have a great day.