John Wesley

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

“He that hateth me - As every unbeliever doth, For as the love of God is inseparable from faith, so is the hatred of God from unbelief.”

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

“And that he proceeds from the Son, as well as from the Father, may be fairly argued from his being called the Spirit of Christ, 1 Pet.”

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

“The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think he doth God service - But, blessed be God, the time is so far past, that those who bear the name of Christ do not now generally suppose they do him service by killing each other…”

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

“Of sin - Particularly of unbelief, which is the confluence of all sins, and binds them all down upon us.”

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

“Of righteousness, because I go to my Father - Which the Spirit will testify, though ye do not then see me. But I could not go to him if I were not righteous.”

and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

“The prince of this world is judged - And in consequence thereof dethroned, deprived of the power he had so long usurped over men. Yet those who reject the deliverance offered them will remain slaves of Satan still.”

I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

“I have yet many things to say - Concerning my passion, death, resurrection, and the consequences of it. These things we have, not in uncertain traditions, but in the Acts, the Epistles, and the Revelation.”

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

“Ye now therefore have sorrow - This gives us no manner of authority to assert all believers must come into a state of darkness. They never need lose either their peace, or love, or the witness that they are the children of God.”

In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

“Whatsoever ye shall ask - Knowledge, love, or any thing else, he will give it - Our Lord here gives us a charte blanche. Believer, write down what thou wilt. He had said, Chap.”

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

“At that day ye shall ask - For true knowledge begets prayer. And I say not that I will pray - This in nowise implies that he will not: it means only, The Father himself now loves you, not only because of my intercession, but…”

I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.

“That he may give eternal life, &c.-This answers to that thy Son may glorify thee. To all whom thou hast given him - To all believers.”

All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine; and in them I have been glorified.

“And this is the original ground of that peculiar property, which both the Father and the Son have in the persons who were given to Christ as Mediator; according to what is said in the close of the verse, of his being glorified by them…”

I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You.

“Keep them through thy name - Thy power, mercy, wisdom, that they may be one - with us and with each other; one body, separate from the world: as we are - By resemblance to us, though not equality.”

While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me.

“Those whom thou hast given me I have guarded, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition - So one even of them whom God had given him is lost. So far was even that decree from being unchangeable!”

Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

“Sanctify - Consecrate them by the anointing of thy Spirit to their office, and perfect them in holiness, by means of thy word.”

For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

“I sanctify myself - I devote myself as a victim, to be sacrificed.”

that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You.

“As thou art in me - This also is to be understood in a way of similitude, and not of sameness or equality. That the world may believe - Here Christ prays for the world. Observe the sum of his whole prayer, 1.”

I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—

“The glory which thou hast given me, I have given them - The glory of the only begotten shines in all the sons of God. How great is the majesty of Christians.”

Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the…

“Here he returns to the apostles. I will - He asks, as having a right to be heard, and prays, not as a servant, but a Son: that they may behold my glory - Herein Is the happiness of heaven, 1 John iii, 2.”

Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

“Righteous Father - The admission of believers to God through Christ, flows even from the justice of God.”

After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

“Kedron was (as the name signifies) a dark shady valley, on the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives, through which a little brook ran, which took its name from it.”

“I told you that I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you are looking for Me, let these men go.”

“If ye seek me, let these (my disciples) go - It was an eminent instance of his power over the spirits of men, that they so far obeyed this word, as not to seize even Peter, when he had cut off the ear of Malchus.”

They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

“Annas had been high priest before his son-in-law Caiaphas. And though he had for some time resigned that office, yet they paid so much regard to his age and experience, that they brought Christ to Annas first.”

“You take Him and judge Him by your own law,” Pilate told them. “We are not permitted to execute anyone,” the Jews replied.

“It is not lawful for us to put any man to death - The power of inflicting capital punishment had been taken from them that very year. So the scepter was departed from Judah, and transferred to the Romans.”

“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered.

“Everyone that is of the truth - That is, a lover of it, heareth my voice - A universal maxim. Every sincere lover of truth will hear him, so as to understand and practice what he saith.”