15 “If you all love me, you will obey my commands. 16 And I will ask the father and he will give you another assistant to be with you all for this age— 17 the spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it doesn’t see or know him.

18 “And I won’t leave you all here as orphans, but I will come back to you. 19 It won’t be long now and the world won’t see me any more, but you will see me because I’ll be alive and you all will be alive also. 20 At that time you will know that I am in my father, and you all are in me, and I am in you all.

21 “Anyone who takes my commands and obeys them, that’s the person who loves me, and anyone who loves me will be loved by my father, and I too will be loving them and will be revealing myself to them.”

22 Yudas (not Yudas Iscariot) asked, “Master, what’s going on? Why would you reveal yourself to us and not to the whole world?”

23 Yeshua answered, “If anyone loves me, they’ll obey my teaching, and my father will love them and we will go to that person and live with them. 24 But anyone who doesn’t love me, won’t obey my teaching. The words that you hear from me are not my own, but come from the father who sent me.

25 “I told you all this while I have been here with you all. 26 But the holy spirit, the assistant who the father will be sending with my authority, he will be teaching you everything, and will be reminding you of everything that I told you all.

27 I will leave peace with you all. I’m giving my peace to you all, but what I’m giving isn’t like what the world gives. Don’t be upset or afraid. 28 You all heard me say that I’m going away and then will be coming back. If you really loved me, you’d be very happy that I’m going to the father, because the father is greater than me.

29 But I’ve told you now before it happens, so that when it does come to pass, you’ll be able to believe that it was preplanned. 30 I won’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in common with me, 31 but he’s coming so that the world can know that I love the father and whatever the father told me to do, I’m doing it.

“Come on, stand up. We need to be leaving this place.”