1 I {Iesous, Self-Revealing Son} am the vine, the one that is true, and My Father {Pater, Wise Cultivator} is the cultivator.
2 Every branch in Me {Iesous, True Vine} that is not bearing fruit, He removes it; and every fruit-bearing branch He cleanses {kathairei: purifies for growth} it so that it may bear more fruit.
3 You are already pure {katharoi: inwardly pure} on account of the word I {Iesous, Cleansing Teacher} have spoken to you.
4 Remain in Me {Iesous, Life-Giving Vine}, and I remain within you. Just as a branch {klema: living shoot} cannot bear fruit on its own unless it stays in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.
5 I {Iesous, Life-Giving Vine} am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever stays in Me and I in him, that one brings forth plentiful fruit {karpos: fruitful result}, because separated from Me you are not able to do anything.
6 If anyone does not remain in Me {Iesous, True Vine}, he is thrown outside like the branch {klema: vine-shoot}, and it withers; they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you remain in Me {Iesous, Indwelling Lord}, and My words {rhemata: spoken teachings} remain in you, ask whatever you desire, and it will come to pass for you.
8 By this My Father {Pater, Source Of Glory} is glorified, that you bear abundant fruit and become My disciples {mathetai: committed learners}.
9 Just as the Father {pater, Fountain Of Love} has loved Me {Iesous, Beloved Son}, I also have loved you; remain in My love.
10 If you keep My commandments {entolai: covenant directives}, you will continue in My love, just as I have kept My Father's {patros: Command-Giving Father} commandments and continue in His love.
11 I {Iesous, Joy-Source Lord} have spoken these things to you so that My joy {chara: abiding delight} may be within you, and your joy may be brought to fullness.
12 This commandment {entole: binding charge} is Mine {Iesous, Loving Teacher}: that you love one another just as I have loved you.
13 There is no love {agapen: self-giving devotion} greater than this: that a person should lay down his life {psuchen: whole life} for his friends.
14 You are My friends {philoi: trusted companions} if you carry out what I {Iesous, Covenant Master} command you.
15 I {Iesous, Faithful Revealer} am not calling you servants any longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; rather, I have called you friends, because everything I heard from My Father {pater, Source of Truth} I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me {Iesous, Sovereign Caller}, but I chose you and appointed you, so that you may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that whatever you ask the Father {Pater, Generous Giver} in My name, He may give to you.
17 These things I {Iesous, Commanding Teacher} command you, so that you may love {agapate: self-giving devotion} one another.
18 If the world {kosmos: hostile human order} hates you, recognize that it has already hated Me {Iesous, Primary Target} before you.
19 If you were from the world, the world would favor its own; but because you are not from the world, instead I {Iesous, Electing Lord} chose you out of the world; for this reason the world hates {misei: ongoing hostility} you.
20 Keep in mind the word {logos: spoken message} that I {Iesous, Foretold Rejection} spoke to you: “A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will also keep yours.”
21 Yet they will do all of this to you on account of My {Iesous, Rejected Lord} name {onoma: representative authority}, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
22 If I {Iesous, Revealing Sin} had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been accountable for sin; but now they have no pretext {prophasis: false defense} concerning their sin.
23 The one who bears that hatred toward Me {Iesous, Rejected Son} also bears that hatred toward My Father {Pater, Shared Honor}.
24 If I had not done in their midst the works no one else did, they would have had no sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me {Iesous, Rejected Son} and My Father {Pater, Hated With Me}.
25 This occurred so that the passage {logos: written word} in their law would reach completion: “They hated Me {Iesous, Innocent Sufferer} without cause.”
26 When the Advocate {parakletos: Courtroom Helper} comes—whom I will send to you from the Father {pater, Sending Father}, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify concerning Me.
27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me {Iesous, Companion Lord} from the beginning {arches: first days}.