CHRIST'S SERMON AFTER THE LAST SUPPER. 1 [15:1]I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [15:2]Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he trims, that it may bear more fruit. [15:3]You are now pure, by means of the word which I have spoken to you; [15:4]continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me. [15:5]I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing. [15:6]If any one continues not in me he is cast without as a branch, and is withered; and they collect them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. [15:7]If you continue in me, and my words continue in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be [given] you. [15:8]By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples. [15:9]As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; continue in my love. [15:10]If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love. [15:11]I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be completed. [15:12]This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. [15:13]No man has greater love than this, that one should give his life for his friends. [15:14]You are my friends if you do what I command you; [15:15]I no longer call you servants, for the servant knows not what his Lord does; but I have called you friends: for all things which I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. [15:16]You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. [15:17]These things I charge you, that you love one another.