I am the  ¹true vine, and My Father is the  ²husbandman.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes it away; and every branch that bears fruit, He  ¹prunes it that it may bear more fruit.

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit  ¹of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

If one does not abide in Me, he is  ¹cast out as a branch and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If you abide in Me and My  ¹words abide in you,  ²ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

In this is My Father  ¹glorified, that you bear much fruit and so you will become My disciples.

As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

If you  ¹keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

These things I have spoken to you that My  ¹joy may be in you and that your joy may be made full.

This is My commandment, that you love one another even as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than this, that one lay down his  ¹life for his friends.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all the things which I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I  ¹set you that you should  ²go forth and bear fruit and  ³that your fruit should  ⁴remain, that whatever you  ⁵ask the Father in My name, He may give you.

These things I command you that you may  ¹love one another.

If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you.

If you were  ¹of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not  ¹of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Remember the word which I said to you, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will persecute you also; if they have kept My word, they will keep yours also.

But all these things they will do to you because of My name, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

He who hates Me hates My Father also.

If I did not do among them the works which no one else has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father.

But it is so that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, “They hated Me without cause.”

But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you  ¹from the Father, the Spirit of reality, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning Me;

And you testify also, because from the beginning you have been with Me.

These things I have spoken to you so that you would not be stumbled.

They will put you out of the synagogues; but an hour is coming for everyone who  ¹kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

And these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.

But these things I have spoken to you that when their hour comes you may remember them, that I told you of them. Now these things I have not said to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill; and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, Thus says Jehovah, Put your house in order, for you are about to die and will not live.

And he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah, saying,

Now, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept many tears.

And Isaiah had not gone out of the middle  ¹court when the word of Jehovah came to him, saying,

Return and speak to Hezekiah the leader of My people, Thus says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will now heal you: On the third day you will go up to the house of Jehovah;

And I will add to your life fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will put an enclosure around this city for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant.

And Isaiah said, Bring a cake of figs. And they brought it and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What will be the sign that Jehovah will heal me and that I will go up to the house of Jehovah on the third day?

And Isaiah said, This will be the sign from Jehovah to you, that Jehovah will do this thing which He has spoken. Shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?

And Hezekiah said, It is an easy matter for the shadow to go down ten steps. No; rather let the shadow go backward ten steps.

And Isaiah the prophet cried to Jehovah; and He brought the shadow on the steps, which had descended on the steps of Ahaz, ten steps backward.

At that time  ¹Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

And Hezekiah listened to them and showed them all his treasury, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and his armory and everything which was found among his treasures; there was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say? And from where have they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a distant land, from Babylon.

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said, They have seen everything that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah:

The days are now coming when everything that is in your house and that your fathers have laid up as a treasure unto this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left, says Jehovah.

And they will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of Jehovah which you have spoken is good. He said moreover, Indeed there will be peace and truth in my days.

And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers.

And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah.

And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.

And he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he raised up altars to Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab the king of Israel had done; and he worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, concerning which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put My name.

And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

And he caused his son to pass through fire and practiced soothsaying and enchantments, and appointed mediums and spiritists; he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah beyond measure, provoking Him to anger.

And he put the engraved image of the Asherah that he had made in that house concerning which Jehovah had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

And I will no longer cause the foot of Israel to wander away from the land that I gave their fathers, if only they will be certain to act according to all that I have commanded them and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.

But they would not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations which Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.

And Jehovah spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

Because  ¹Manasseh the king of Judah has done these abominations and has done more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has caused Judah also to sin with his idols;

Therefore thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, I am now bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that both ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

And over Jerusalem I will stretch the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down.

And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies;

Because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day.

And Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another, besides his sin by which he caused Judah to sin, doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza.

And Amon his son reigned in his place.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done.

And he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and he served the idols that his father had served and worshipped them;

And he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Jehovah.

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and they killed the king in his own house.

But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

And the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And he was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza.