After completing Daniel and musing on where to go in the Bible next, RED LETTERS came up! Onwards to John!
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
Jn. 15:17 This is my command: Love each other.
Jn. 15:18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
Jn. 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
Jn. 15:20 Remember the words I spoke to you: `No servant is greater than his master.’ [John 13:16] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
Jn. 15:21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me.
Jn. 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
Jn. 15:23 He who hates me hates my Father as well.
Jn. 15:24 If I had not done among them what no-one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
Jn. 15:25 But this is to fulfil what is written in their Law: `They hated me without reason.’ [Psalms 35:19; 69:4]
Jn. 15:26 “When the Counsellor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
Jn. 15:27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
CHAPTER 16
Jn. 16:1 “All this I have told you so that you will not go astray.
Jn. 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
Jn. 16:3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
Jn. 16:4 I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.
Jn. 16:5 “Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, `Where are you going?’
Jn. 16:6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief.
Jn. 16:7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counsellor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Jn. 16:8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt [Or will expose the guilt of the world] in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
Jn. 16:9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;
Jn. 16:10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;
Jn. 16:11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
Jn. 16:12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.
Jn. 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
Jn. 16:14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.
Jn. 16:15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.
Jn. 16:16 “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”
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