o him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it that thou
wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?

14:23. Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep
my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will
make our abode with him.

14:24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which
you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.

14:25. These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you.

14:26. But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in
my name, he will teach you all things and bring all things to your mind,
whatsoever I shall have said to you.

Teach you all things... Here the Holy Ghost is promised to the apostles
and their successors, particularly, in order to teach them all truth,
and to preserve them from error.

14:27. Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor
let it be afraid.

14:28. You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto
you. If you loved me you would indeed be glad, because I go to the
Father: for the Father is greater than I.

For the Father is greater than I... It is evident, that Christ our Lord
speaks here of himself as he is made man: for as God he is equal to the
Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty of understanding the meaning of
these words will vanish, when the relative circumstances of the text
here are considered: for Christ being at this time shortly to suffer
death, signified to his apostles his human nature by these very words:
for as God he could not die. And therefore as he was both God and man,
it must follow that according to his humanity he was to die, which the
apostles were soon to see and believe, as he expresses, ver. 29. And now
I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass,
you may believe.

14:29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it
shall come to pass, you may believe.

14:30. I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this
world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

14:31. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the
Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John Chapter 15

A continuation of Christ's discourse to his disciples.

15:1. I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.

15:2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take