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Jesus promises the Spirit

15-20 “If you really love me, you will keep the commandments I have given you and I shall ask the Father to give you someone else to stand by you, to be with you always. I mean the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, for it can neither see nor recognise that Spirit. But you recognise him, for he is with you now and will be in your hearts. I am not going to leave you alone in the world—I am coming to you. In a very little while, the world will see me no more but you will see me, because I am really alive and you will be alive too. When that day come, you will realise that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and I am in you.

21 “Every man who knows my commandments and obeys them is the man who really loves me, and every man who really loves me will himself be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and make myself known to him.”

22 Then Judas (not Iscariot), said, “Lord, how is it that you are going to make yourself known to us but not to the world?”

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20 On that day(A) you will realize that I am in my Father,(B) and you are in me, and I am in you.(C) 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.(D) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,(E) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

22 Then Judas(F) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”(G)

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