Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Diatessaron of Tatian/The Diatessaron/Section XLVI

Section XLVI.

[1] Whosoever hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:&#160; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will [2] shew myself unto him.&#160; Judas (not Iscariot) said unto him, My Lord, what is the [3] purpose of thy intention to shew thyself to us, and not to the world?&#160; Jesus answered and said unto him, Whosoever loveth me will keep my word:&#160; and my Father will love him, and to him will we come, and make our abode with him.&#160; [4] But he that loveth me not keepeth not my word:&#160; and this word that ye hear is not my word, but the Father&#8217;s which sent me.

[5, 6] This have I spoken unto you, while I was yet with you.&#160; But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything, and [7] [Arabic, p. 174] he will bring to your remembrance all that I say unto you.&#160; Peace I leave you; my peace I give unto you:&#160; and not as this world giveth, give I unto you.&#160; [8] Let your heart not be troubled, nor fearful.&#160; Ye heard that I said unto you, that I go away, and come unto you.&#160; If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, that I go away to my [9] Father:&#160; for my Father is greater than I.&#160; And now I say unto you before it come [10] to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe me.&#160; Now I will not speak with you much:&#160; the Archon of the world will come, and he will have nothing in [11] me:&#160; but that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father charged me, so I do.

[12] And he said unto them, When I sent you without purses, or wallets, and shoes, [13] lacked ye perchance anything?&#160; They said unto him, Nothing.&#160; He said unto them, Henceforth, whosoever hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise the wallet also:&#160; and whosoever hath not a sword, shall sell his garment, and buy for himself a [14] sword.&#160; I say unto you, that this scripture also must be fulfilled in me, that I should be reckoned with the transgressors:&#160; for all that is said of me is fulfilled in [15] me.&#160; His disciples said unto him, Our Lord, lo, here are two swords.&#160; He said [16] unto them, They are sufficient.&#160; Arise, let us go hence.&#160; And they arose, and praised, and went forth, and went, according to their custom, to the mount of Olives, he and his disciples.

[17] And he said unto them, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.&#160; [18] Every branch that produceth not fruit in me, he taketh it:&#160; and that which giveth fruit, [19] he cleanseth it, that it may give much fruit.&#160; Ye are already clean because of the word [20] that I have spoken unto you.&#160; Abide in me, and I in you.&#160; And as the branch of the [Arabic, p. 175] vine cannot produce fruit of itself, if it be not abiding in the vine; so too ye [21] also, if ye abide not in me.&#160; I am the vine, and ye are the branches:&#160; He then that abideth in me, and I in him, he giveth much fruit:&#160; for without me ye cannot [22] do anything.&#160; And if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, like a withered [23] branch; and it is gathered, and cast into the fire, that it may be burned.&#160; If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, everything that ye desire to ask shall be [24] done unto you.&#160; And herein is the Father glorified, that ye may give much fruit; [25] and ye shall be my disciples.&#160; And as my Father loved me, I loved you also:&#160; [26] abide in my love.&#160; If ye keep my commands, ye shall abide in my love; as I have [27] kept my Father&#8217;s commands, and abode in his love.&#160; I have spoken that unto you, [28] that my joy may be in you, and your joy be fulfilled.&#160; This is my commandment, [29] that ye love one another, as I loved you.&#160; And no love is greater than this, namely, [30] that a man should give his life for his friends.&#160; Ye are my friends, if ye do all that [31] I command you.&#160; I call you not now servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:&#160; my friends have I now called you; for everything that I heard from [32] my Father I have made known unto you.&#160; Ye did not choose me, but I chose I you, and appointed you, that ye also should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should [33] abide; and that all that ye shall ask my Father in my name, he may give you.&#160; This [34] I command you, that ye love one another.&#160; And if the world hate you, know that [35] before you it hated me.&#160; If then ye were of the world, the world would love its own:&#160; but ye are not of the world:&#160; I chose you out of the world:&#160; therefore the world [36] [Arabic, p. 176] hateth you.&#160; Remember the word that I said unto you, that no servant is greater than his lord.&#160; And if they persecuted me, you also will they [37] persecute; and if they kept my word, your word also will they keep.&#160; But all these things will they do unto you for my name&#8217;s sake, for they have not known him [38] that sent me.&#160; And if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:&#160; [39] but now they have no excuse for their sins.&#160; Whosoever hateth me, also hateth my [40] Father.&#160; And if I had not done the deeds before them that no other man did, they would not have had sin:&#160; but now they have seen and hated me and my Father [41] also:&#160; that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me for [42] nothing.&#160; But when the Paraclete is come, whom I will send unto you from my Father, even the Spirit of truth, which goeth forth from my Father, he shall bear witness of [43] me:&#160; and ye also bear witness, because from the beginning ye have been with me.

[44, 45] I have said that unto you, that ye may not stumble. &#160; And they shall put you out of their synagogues:&#160; and there cometh an hour when every one that killeth [46] you shall think that he hath offered unto God an offering.&#160; And they will do that, [47] because they do not know me, nor my Father.&#160; I have said that unto you, so that [48] when its time is come, ye may remember it, that I told you.&#160; And this hitherto I said not unto you, because I was with you.&#160; But now I go unto him that sent me; and no [49] man of you asketh me whither I go.&#160; I have said that unto you now, and grief hath [50] come and taken possession of your hearts &#160; But I say the truth unto you; It is better for you that I go away:&#160; for if I go not away, the Paraclete will not come unto you; [51] [Arabic, p. 177] but if I go away, I will send him unto you.&#160; And when he cometh, he will reprove the world for sin, and for righteousness, and for judgement:&#160; [52, 53] for sin, because they have not believed in me; and for righteousness, because I go [54] to my Father; and for judgement, because the Archon of this world hath been [55] judged.&#160; And further have I many things to speak unto you, but ye cannot tarry [56] now.&#160; Howbeit when the Spirit of truth is come, he will remind you of all the truth:&#160; he will say nothing from himself; but everything that he heareth, that shall [57] he say:&#160; and he shall make known unto you the things that are to be.&#160; And he shall [58] glorify me; for from me shall he take and shew you.&#160; All that my Father hath is mine:&#160; therefore said I unto you, that he taketh of mine, and shall shew you.