NARRATOR: After his last supper with his disciples Jesus talked with them.
JESUS 1: As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Live on in my love. You will live in my love if you keep my commandments, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and live in my Father’s love.
JESUS 2: All this I tell you that my joy may be yours and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. There is no greater love than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
JESUS 3: You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer speak of you as slaves, for a slave does not know
what the master is about. Instead, I call you friends since I have made known to you all that I heard from my Father.
JESUS 4: It was not you who chose me; it was I who chose you to go forth and bear fruit. Your fruit must endure so that
all you ask the Father in my name, my Father will give you.
ALL: The command I give you is this: that you love one another.
John 15.9-17