Daily Gospel Plan

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

²Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

⁴Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.

⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

⁸My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be my disciples.

⁹“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

¹¹“I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

¹²“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.

¹³No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you.

¹⁵I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.

¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

¹⁷“This is what I command you: Love one another.

¹⁸“If the world hates you, understand that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

²⁰Remember the word I 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.

²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they don’t know the one who sent me.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³The one who hates me also hates my Father.

²⁴If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁵But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: They hated me for no reason.

²⁶“When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father — he will testify about me.

²⁷You also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

¹“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

²They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

³They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or me.

⁴But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you will remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

⁶Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

⁷Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.

⁸When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:

⁹About sin, because they do not believe in me;

¹⁰about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

¹¹and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

¹³When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.

¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.

¹⁵Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.

¹⁶“A little while and you will no longer see me; again a little while and you will see me.”

¹⁷Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he’s telling us: ‘A little while and you will not see me; again a little while and you will see me’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’ ?”

¹⁸They said, “What is this he is saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he’s talking about.”

¹⁹Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me; again a little while and you will see me’?

²⁰Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.

²¹When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

²²So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

²³“In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

²⁴Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

²⁶On that day you will ask in my name, and I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

²⁷For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

²⁸I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said, “Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language.

³⁰Now we know that you know everything and don’t need anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

³¹Jesus responded to them, “Do you now believe?

³²Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

³³I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”