It Was Foretold

^{1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.}

^{2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.}

^{3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.}

^{4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.}

^{5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.}

^{6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.}

^{7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.}

^{8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.}

^{9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.}

^{10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.}

^{11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.}

^{12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.}

^{13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.}

^{14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.}

^{15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.}

^{16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.}

^{17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.}

^{18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.}

^{19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.}

^{20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.}

^{21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.}

^{22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.}

^{23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.}

^{24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.}

^{25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.}

^{26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:}

^{27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.} 

JC Cruz is the author of DECEPTIO published by WestBowPress, a division of Thomas Nelson publishers.http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU000194087/Deceptio.aspx and LOST, BUT FOUND available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DPLLEUQ/. You can follow him on Twitter @Cruz_JCReal