¹⁴ ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

⁵⁰ for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

⁴ `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

²³ and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

²⁸ ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

¹⁷ if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

⁵ His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you -- do.'

⁸ -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

¹ I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

⁷ `Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,