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1 “Ena Na [I AM (the Living God)] the true vine, and 'Avi ·my Father· is the farmer. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 5 Ena Na [I AM (the Living God)] the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If a man does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 *If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
8 “In this is 'Avi ·my Father· glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. 9 Even as haAbba ·the Father· has agapao ·totally devoted love· for me, I also have shown agapao ·totally devoted love· for you. Remain in my agape ·unconditional love·. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my agape ·unconditional love·; even as I have kept 'Avi ·my Father·’s commandments, and remain in his agape ·unconditional love·. 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 †“This is my commandment, that you have agapao ·total devotion love· to one another, even as I have shown agapao ·total devotion love· to you. 13 Greater agape ·unconditional love· has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I enjoin you. 15 ‡No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his lord does. §But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from 'Avi ·my Father·, I have made known to you. 16 *You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of haAbba ·the Father· in my name, he may give it to you.
17 “I enjoin these things to you, that you may have agapao ·totally devoted love· to one another. 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would phileo ·affectionately love, have high regard for· its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had abstract sin ·miss the mark·; but now they have no excuse for their abstract sin ·miss the mark·. 23 †‡He who hates me, hates 'Avi ·my Father· also. 24 §*If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had abstract sin ·miss the mark·. But now have they seen and also hated both me and 'Avi ·my Father·. 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their Torah ·Teaching, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’ †
26 “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from haAbba ·the Father·, haRuach [the Spirit, Breath] of truth, who proceeds from haAbba ·the Father·, he will testify about me. 27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
* 15:7 (7-8) MP: Messiah will distribute gifts to humanity, both those under his rein and those rebellious his rule establishing a dwelling for God. (Ps 68:18b) † 15:12 . MP: Messiah establishes that obedience is more desired to God than sacrifice. (Ps 40:6-8) ‡ 15:15 . MP: Messiah calls these believers, or those who do the Father’s will, brethren or brothers. (Ps 22:22) § 15:15 . MP: “He will divide the spoils.” By being an atonement for many, Messiah is the Redeemer and therefore enjoys the benefits / spoils of this conquest; redeeming people from their former master who rules thru sin to the new Master who is Yahweh. (Is 53:12a) * 15:16 . MP: Corn referring to the kernel seed that starts small and grows to multiple abundance as the grass, likewise are Messiah and his disciples multiplying (according to R. Obadiah Gaon). Growing outside the city, in the land beyond borders, referencing a mixed group of Jew and non-Jew. By comparing this crop to “Lebanon,” it describes the quality of the produce grown. (Ps 72:16) † 15:23 (23-25) MP: Messiah is despised. (See also Ps 69:4b). (Is 49:7a) ‡ 15:23 (23-25)MP: Messiah is rejected. (Zech 12:10c) § 15:24 (24-25) MP: Hated without a cause. (Ps 69:4a) * 15:24 . MP: Trusting in Yahweh God also means to trust in his Servant Messiah. (Is 50:10) † 15:25 . Quoted from Ps 35:19, 69:4, 109:3