John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

John 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cant bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Rebbe Nachman says,

“The students share the same spiritual root as the master, although they are dependent upon him like branches on a tree.”
Rebbe Nachman, Likutey Moharan 66:1A, Volume 8, Breslov Research Institute, pg. 67

The Breslov commentary says,

“We find in the writings of the Ari that all souls are rooted in the soul of the tzaddik, with the tzaddik being like the trunk of a large tree and all his followers its different branches, twigs and leaves (see Shaar HaGilgulim p 83-88).”
Breslov Commentary

Rebbe Nachman says,

“…the principle is that the tzaddik has the power to exercise rule as he sees fit. As our Sages taught: “a tzaddik rules…” (2 Samuel 23:3) – Who rules over Me? The tzaddik (Moed Katan 16b). This corresponds to “Yosef was the ruler” (Genesis 42:6). He is the encompassing root of all Jewish souls, and they are the extensions that receive from him.”
Rebbe Nachman, Likutey Moharan 34:2, Volume V, Breslov Research Institute, pg. 51

John 15:6
If a man does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

John 15:7
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

John 15:8
In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

John 15:9
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Fathers commandments, and remain in his love.

John 15:11
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

John 15:12
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesnt know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

John 15:16
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:17
I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

John 15:21
But all these things will they do to you for my names sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.

John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldnt have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

John 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

John 15:26
When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

John 15:27
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.