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"You have not chosen
Me, but I have chosen you, and have
appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit
should remain; that
whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you.
"These things I command
you, that you love one another. If the world hate you, know ye that it hath
hated Me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own.
But because you
are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you.
"Remember My word that
I said to you: 'The servant is not greater than his master: If they have
persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My word, they
will keep yours also.
But all these things they will do to you for My Name's sake, because they know
not Him Who sent Me.
"If I had not come and
spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for
their sin. He that hateth Me, hateth My Father also. If I had not done among
them the works that no
other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and
hated both Me and My
Father. But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: 'They
hated Me without cause:
"But when the Paraclete
cometh, Whom I will send9 you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, Who
proceedeth from the Father, He shall give testimony of Me. And you shall give
testimony, because
you are with Me from the beginning
John 15:1-2 7
Jesus' Interior Prayer and Lamentation
I will give thanks to Thee in a great church; I will praise Thee in a strong
people. Let not them
that are My enemies wrongfully rejoice over Me, who have hated Me without cause,
and wink with the
eyes. For they spoke indeed peaceably to Me, while they devised guile. And
9 Whom I will send: This proves, against the modern Greeks, that the Holy
Ghost proceedeth
from the Son as well as from the Father. Otherwise He could not be
proceedeth from the Son as well as from the Father. Otherwise He could not be
sent by the Son.