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\subsection{\John 15}
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\subsubsection{The Vine and the Branches}
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\lettrine[lraise=0]{I}{} am the true vine, and my father is the vinedresser.
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\VS{2} Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away, and every [branch] bearing fruit, he prunes\footnote{KATHAIRO ($\kappa\alpha\theta\alpha\iota\rho\omega$) primarily means ``clean'', but also means to ``prune'' a plant. So this is a play on words with v.3.}
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it in order that it bear more fruit.
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\VS{3} Already are you clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
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\VS{4} Dwell in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to be bearing
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fruit from itself if it does not dwell in the vine, thus you neither if you
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do not dwell in me.
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\VS{5} I am the vine, you are the branches. The [one] dwelling in me and I in him,
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this [one] bears much fruit, because apart from me you are able to be doing \negd{nothing}.
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\VS{6} If anyone be not dwelling in me, he was thrown out like the branch and was withered,
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and they gather them and throw [them] into the fire and it is burned.\footnote{Doesn't say who does the gathering and the burning.}
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\VS{7} If you dwell in me and my words dwell in you, ask whatever you want,
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and it will come to pass to you.
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\VS{8} In this was my father glorified, that you be bearing
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much fruit and become my disciples.
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\VS{9} Just as the father agape-loved me, I also agape-loved you. Dwell in my agape-love.
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\VS{10} If you keep my commandments you will dwell in my agape-love,
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just as I have kept my father's commandments and I dwell in [his] agape-love.
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\VS{11} This have I spoken to you that my joy be in you and you joy be made full.
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\VS{12} This is my commandment: that you be agape-loving one another, just as I agape-loved you.
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\VS{13} Greater agape-love no one has than this, that he lay down his
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psyche-life\fnPsyche{} in his philia-beloveds' behalf.
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\VS{14} You are my philia-beloved, if you are doing what I command you.
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\VS{15} No longer do I say you [are] slaves, because the slave does not know what his lord
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does; but I have called you philia-beloved, because everything that I heard from my father I made known to you.
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\VS{16} You did not choose me, but I chose you, and dedicated\footnote{or ``gave'', ``placed''} you that you be going and be bearing fruit and your fruit be remaining\footnote{literally the same word ``dwelling'' used throughout this passage}, in order that whatever you ask the father in my name he give you.
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\VS{17} These [things] I command you, in order that you be agape-loving one another.
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\subsubsection{The World's Hatred}
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\VS{18} If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
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\VS{19} If you were of the world, the world was philia-loving its own.
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But because you [are] not of this world, but I chose you out of the world,
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because of this the world hates you.
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\VS{20} Be remembering the word that I told you: [A] slave is not greater than his lord.
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If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
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If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
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\VS{21} But all these [things] will they do to you on account of my name,
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because they do not know the [one] having sent me.
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\VS{22} If I hadn't come and told them, they were not having sin.
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But now they do not have pretext concerning their sin.
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\VS{23} The [one] hating me also hates my father.
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\VS{24} If I hadn't done the works among them that no other has done, they were not having
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sin. But now they have both seen\footnote{could either be referring to ``the works'' or to ``me and my father.''} and hated me and my father.
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\VS{25} But [this is] in order that the word in their law be fulfilled having been
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written that\footnote{Ps.35:19}:
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\begin{verse}
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They hated me undeservedly.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{26} When the advocate\fnParacletos{} comes that I will send to you from beside the
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father --- the spirit of truth that goes out from beside the father --- that
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[one] will testify concerning me;
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\VS{27} and you also testify, because you are with me from the beginning.
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