5“But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going.6Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you.7But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the eAdvocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus' Disciples And The World – John 15:18-16:4
Jesus’ Disciples and the World
18“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.19The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.20Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Love One Another – John 15:9-17
9“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my alove.10When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.11I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!12This is my commandment: Love each other in …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus Is The Vine, We Are The Branches – John 15:1-8
“I am the true jgrapevine, and my Father is the gardener.2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.3You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Why Not Reveal Yourself Jesus? – John 14:22-31
22Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”
23Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.24Anyone who doesn’t love me will not …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Promise Of The Holy Spirit – John 14:15-21
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15“If you love me, obey my commandments.16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another gAdvocate, who will never leave you.17He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus Is The Way To The Father – John 14:1-14
1“Don’t let your fhearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Peter's Denial Predicted – John 13:31-38
31As soon as Judas left the room, Jesus said, “The time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory, and God will be glorified because of him.32And since God receives glory because of the Son, he will soon give glory to the Son.33Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus Predicts Judas' Betrayal – John 13:21-30
21Now Jesus was deeply troubled, and he exclaimed, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me!”
22The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom he could mean.23The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table.24Simon Peter motioned to him to ask, “Who’s he talking about?”25So that disciple leaned over to Jesus and asked, “Lord, who is …
Beginner's Online Bible Study: Jesus Washes The Disciple's Feet – John 13:1-20
Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet
1Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.2It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.3Jesus knew that the …