Pinchas Gospel

Yochannan 15-17
Yochanan 15:1 "I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.
Yochanan 15:2 Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
Yochanan 15:3 Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned.
Yochanan 15:4 Stay united with me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can't put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can't bear fruit apart from me.
Yochanan 15:5 "I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can't do a thing.
Yochanan 15:6 Unless a person remains united with me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, where they are burned up.
Yochanan 15:7 "If you remain united with me, and my words with you, then ask whatever you want, and it will happen for you.
Yochanan 15:8 This is how my Father is esteemed — in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my talmidim.
Yochanan 15:9 "Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love.
Yochanan 15:10 If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father's commands and stay in his love.
Yochanan 15:11 I have said this to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy be complete.
Yochanan 15:12 "This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.
Yochanan 15:13 No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends.
Yochanan 15:14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
Yochanan 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn't know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Yochanan 15:16 You did not choose me, I chose you; and I have commissioned you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that whatever you ask from the Father in my name he may give you.
Yochanan 15:17 This is what I command you: keep loving each other!
Yochanan 15:18 "If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.
Yochanan 15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would have loved its own. But because you do not belong to the world — on the contrary, I have picked you out of the world — therefore the world hates you.
Yochanan 15:20 Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.
Yochanan 15:21 But they will do all this to you on my account, because they don't know the One who sent me.
Yochanan 15:22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they wouldn't be guilty of sin; but now, they have no excuse for their sin.
Yochanan 15:23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
Yochanan 15:24 If I had not done in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father.
Yochanan 15:25 But this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read, 'They hated me for no reason at all.'
Yochanan 15:26 "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who keeps going out from the Father — he will testify on my behalf.
Yochanan 15:27 And you testify too, because you have been with me from the outset.
Yochanan 16:1 "I have told you these things so that you won't be caught by surprise.
Yochanan 16:2 They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving Elohim!
Yochanan 16:3 They will do these things because they have understood neither the Father nor me.
Yochanan 16:4 But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for it to happen, you will remember that I told you. I didn't tell you this at first, because I was with you.
Yochanan 16:5 But now I am going to the One who sent me. "Not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'
Yochanan 16:6 Instead, because I have said these things to you, you are overcome with grief.
Yochanan 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don't go away, the comforting Counselor will not come to you. However, if I do go, I will send him to you.
Yochanan 16:8 "When he comes, he will show that the world is wrong about sin, about righteousness and about judgment —
Yochanan 16:9 about sin, in that people don't put their trust in me;
Yochanan 16:10 about righteousness, in that I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
Yochanan 16:11 about judgment, in that the ruler of this world has been judged.
Yochanan 16:12 "I still have many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
Yochanan 16:13 However, when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own initiative but will say only what he hears. He will also announce to you the events of the future.
Yochanan 16:14 He will glorify me, because he will receive from what is mine and announce it to you.
Yochanan 16:15 Everything the Father has is mine; this is why I said that he receives from what is mine and will announce it to you.
Yochanan 16:16 "In a little while, you will see me no more; then, a little while later, you will see me."
Yochanan 16:17 At this, some of the talmidim said to one another, "What is this that he's telling us, 'In a little while, you won't see me; then, a little while later, you will see me'? and, 'I am going to the Father'?"
Yochanan 16:18 They went on saying, "What is this 'little while'? We don't understand what he's talking about."
Yochanan 16:19 Yahshua knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Are you asking each other what I meant by saying, 'In a little while, you won't see me; and then, a little while later, you will see me'?
Yochanan 16:20 Yes, it's true. I tell you that you will sob and mourn, and the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
Yochanan 16:21 When a woman is giving birth, she is in pain; because her time has come. But when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering out of joy that a child has come into the world.
Yochanan 16:22 So you do indeed feel grief now, but I am going to see you again. Then your hearts will be full of joy, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Yochanan 16:23 "When that day comes, you won't ask anything of me! Yes, indeed! I tell you that whatever you ask from the Father, he will give you in my name.
Yochanan 16:24 Till now you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
Yochanan 16:25 "I have said these things to you with the help of illustrations; however, a time is coming when I will no longer speak indirectly but will talk about the Father in plain language.
Yochanan 16:26 When that day comes, you will ask in my name. I am not telling you that I will pray to the Father on your behalf,
Yochanan 16:27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from Elohim.
Yochanan 16:28 "I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and returning to the Father."
Yochanan 16:29 The talmidim said to him, "Look, you're talking plainly right now, you're not speaking indirectly at all.
Yochanan 16:30 Now we know that you know everything, and that you don't need to have people put their questions into words. This makes us believe that you came from Elohim."
Yochanan 16:31 Yahshua answered, "Now you do believe.
Yochanan 16:32 But a time is coming — indeed it has come already — when you will be scattered, each one looking out for himself; and you will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone; because the Father is with me.
Yochanan 16:33 "I have said these things to you so that, united with me, you may have shalom. In the world, you have tsuris. But be brave! I have conquered the world!"
Yochanan 17:1 After Yahshua had said these things, he looked up toward heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Esteem your Son, so that the Son may esteem you —
Yochanan 17:2 just as you gave him authority over all mankind, so that he might give eternal life to all those whom you have given him.
Yochanan 17:3 And eternal life is this: to know you, the one true Elohim, and him whom you sent, Yahshua HaMashiach.
Yochanan 17:4 "I esteemed you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.
Yochanan 17:5 Now, Father, esteem me alongside yourself. Give me the same esteem I had with you before the world existed.
Yochanan 17:6 "I made your name known to the people you gave me out of the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Yochanan 17:7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you,
Yochanan 17:8 because the words you gave me I have given to them, and they have received them. They have really come to know that I came from you, and they have come to trust that you sent me.
Yochanan 17:9 "I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given to me, because they are yours.
Yochanan 17:10 Indeed, all I have is yours, and all you have is mine, and in them I have been esteemed.
Yochanan 17:11 Now I am no longer in the world. They are in the world, but I am coming to you. Kadosh Father, guard them by the power of your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are.
Yochanan 17:12 When I was with them, I guarded them by the power of your name, which you have given to me; yes, I kept watch over them; and not one of them was destroyed (except the one meant for destruction, so that the Tanakh might be fulfilled).
Yochanan 17:13 But now, I am coming to you; and I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
Yochanan 17:14 "I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world — just as I myself do not belong to the world.
Yochanan 17:15 I don't ask you to take them out of the world, but to protect them from the Evil One.
Yochanan 17:16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Yochanan 17:17 Set them apart for kadoshness by means of the truth — your word is truth.
Yochanan 17:18 Just as you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
Yochanan 17:19 On their behalf I am setting myself apart for kadoshness, so that they too may be set apart for kadoshness by means of the truth.
Yochanan 17:20 "I pray not only for these, but also for those who will trust in me because of their word,
Yochanan 17:21 that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are united with me and I with you, I pray that they may be united with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
Yochanan 17:22 The esteem which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one —
Yochanan 17:23 I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.
Yochanan 17:24 "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am; so that they may see my esteem, which you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Yochanan 17:25 Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these people have known that you sent me.
Yochanan 17:26 I made your name known to them, and I will continue to make it known; so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I myself may be united with them."